The South and U.S. would control the air, limiting the DPRK's potential gains, but North Korea's military wouldn't have to get far to wreak havoc.
The DPRK's first and only successful launch was in 2012, although there's some debate about whether the satellite was ever fully operational.
Second only to maintaining internal stability to allow for succession was the DPRK's determination to improve relations with the U.S., because only the U.S. could solve both the DPRK's security and economic problems.
The Department's more formal human rights report stated with sublime understatement that the DPRK's "most recent national elections, held in 2014, were neither free nor fair".
The test means a higher stage of the DPRK's development of nuclear force.
The DPRK's fate must not be protected by any forces but DPRK itself".
VFM He responded that the United States is the DPRK's main preoccupation.
His experience with the DPRK's chief trading partner should put him in the forefront in Pyongyang.
"They are seriously mistaken if they think they can quell the DPRK's voices of justice through such base acts".
The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) is the DPRK's state news outlet and one of only two printed news sources in the country, the other being Rodong Sinmun.
6. (C) The DPRK's determination to maintain internal order meant that it could go so far as to engage in "limited armed conflict" with the ROK.
