In February, it restarted parts of its main nuclear fuel production plant, and it is developing multiple warhead missiles to outfox U.S. Best estimates are that Pyongyang has up to 60 nuclear weapons, as well as ICBMs and submarine launch missiles that could deliver them to any U.S. Although Trump triumphantly tweeted, РІР‚СљThere is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea,РІР‚Сњ in June 2018, he left office without a single warhead decommissioned. North Korea may not rank as urgent, but it is a truly grave peril. Biden has more urgent issues crowding his in tray: the pandemic, global warming and, crucially, ChinaРІР‚в„ўs rise. relations have complicated an already thorny picture. sanctions that restrict the export of coal, minerals, seafood and other cash-cow goods, which is a nonstarter for Joe Biden. Kim says heРІР‚в„ўs not giving up anything until there are unilateral concessions like relief from the U.N., U.S. The divide has stayed much the same since the civil war: North Korea and China on one side the U.S., South Korea and their allies on the other. South Korea elects a new President in March, and since Moon is ineligible to serve more than one term, he knows that time is running out to heal his riven homeland. Moon traveled to Washington in May to attempt to persuade the new occupant of the White House to re-energize a stalled peace process. Following a historic summit with Kim in Singapore in 2018, the first between the leaders of these existential foes, Trump declared: РІР‚СљWe fell in love.РІР‚Сњ Kim even gifted Moon a pair of snow white Pungsan hunting dogs-Gomi and Songgang-to symbolize their flourishing accord. Over an 18-month period, diplomacy ramped up with astonishing speed: Kim held three summits with Moon, five with Chinese President Xi Jinping, one with Russian President Vladimir Putin and three with Trump. Soon after, Kim and Moon met at the Korean demilitarized zone that has separated its communist North from its capitalist South since an armistice effectively ended the 1950РІР‚вЂњ53 Korean War. Reconciliation kicked off with Kim agreeing to MoonРІР‚в„ўs invitation to send a delegation to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Moon helped guide the world back from the abyss. There had been no official dialogue between North and South since 2013, and caught between an irascible dictator and a geo-political neophyte, Moon feared the worst: РІР‚СљWe were actually on the brink of war.РІР‚Сњ Navy carrier group and threaten РІР‚Сљlittle rocket manРІР‚Сњ with РІР‚Сљfire and furyРІР‚Сњ in riposte. President Donald Trump to dispatch a U.S. Odds were strongly against him at the outset: MoonРІР‚в„ўs arrival into SeoulРІР‚в„ўs presidential Blue House was bookmarked by North Korean weapons tests, including three long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and a purported hydrogen bomb, prompting then U.S. That speech was the first by a South Korean leader in North Korea and the high point of a long, often agonizing process of engagement that Moon had charted since his election in May 2017.

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