North Korea touts missile tests
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North Korea successfully tested a "new cutting-edge weapons system" involving hypersonic missiles, state-run media reported Thursday, amid heightened regional tensions.
North Korea has shunned any form of talks with Washington and Seoul since Kim’s high-stakes nuclear diplomacy with Trump fell apart in 2019 during the American president’s first term.
North Korea has turned deception into strategy, weaponizing ambiguity to mask nuclear progress. Its success reveals how bureaucratic inertia within US intelligence creates blind spots.