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Experts: Killing of Iranian Commander Sends Message to North Korea

Christy Lee

   WASHINGTON - U.S. efforts to deal with Iran in the coming days could
   divert its attention from Pyongyang, meanwhile the killing of Iran's
   top military general by the U.S. could prompt North Korean leader Kim
   Jong Un to reassess how willing the U.S. is to use force, experts said.

   "North Korea may get put on the back burner," said Robert Manning, a
   senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, as the Trump administration
   becomes occupied with possible Iranian retaliations in the Middle East.

   The U.S. killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani Friday with an airstrike at the
   Baghdad airport. Soleimani wasthe commander of Iran's Quds Force of the
   Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps andthe [1]chief strategist of Iran's
   military influence in the Middle East and the architect of major
   operations of Iranian forces over the past two decades.

References

   1. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/world/middleeast/iranian-general-qassem-soleimani-killed.html

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