The North Korean government has been secretly attempting to reach out to analysts close to the United States’ Republican Party in an effort to understand President Donald Trump.
The president and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un have recently stepped up threats against one another; however, Pyongyang’s outreach program for Asia experts with GOP connections in Washington even precedes that, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday.
“Their number one concern is Trump. They can’t figure him out,” a person with direct knowledge of the move was cited as saying.
With tensions escalating between the two nuclear-armed states, such an approach would become more urgent as misunderstanding could serve as catastrophic.
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