Amid Missile Tests, What Is North Korea's Endgame?
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🗓️ 22 November 2022
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But what is North Korea's ultimate goal? And how can the United States and its allies deter Pyongyang? Mary Louise Kelly discusses that with NPR correspondent Anthony Kuhn and Victor Cha of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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| 0:00.0 | Over the weekend, state TV in North Korea aired footage of the country's latest missile |
| 0:09.4 | test. |
| 0:10.4 | The regime in Pyongyang said it was a successful launch of an intercontinental ballistic |
| 0:17.6 | missile. |
| 0:19.0 | Outside experts believe it's the kind of rocket that could potentially be used to attack |
| 0:23.5 | targets in the continental United States. |
| 0:26.4 | The rocket, which landed about 120 miles off the coast of Japan, set off alarm bells |
| 0:31.7 | across the region. |
| 0:33.3 | The U.S. deployed supersonic bombers and conducted drills with South Korean warplanes |
| 0:38.0 | the next day. |
| 0:39.4 | Vice President Kamala Harris, who was in Bangkok for a regional conference, had a speedy |
| 0:44.2 | response to. |
| 0:45.2 | This conduct by North Korea must recently is a brazen violation of the multiple U.N. security |
| 0:52.4 | resolutions. |
| 0:53.4 | It destabilizes security in the region and unnecessarily raises tensions. |
| 0:59.4 | And yesterday at the U.N. |
| 1:01.5 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 1:03.0 | Thank you for being here. |
| 1:04.8 | Linda Thomas Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the U.N. |
| 1:08.0 | studed a podium surrounded by ambassadors of 13 other countries who joined Washington |
| 1:13.4 | in condemning North Korea or DPRK. |
| 1:16.4 | Albania, Australia, Ecuador, France, Ireland, India. |
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