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The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, or North Korea), following the strategic line on carrying out economic construction and building nuclear armed forces simultaneously, conducted its fourth and fifth nuclear tests, and multiple launches of Nodong missiles that can reach Japan, Musudan missiles that can reach Guam, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM). It accelerated the pace of its nuclear and missile development, repeatedly fired ballistic missiles into the waters near Japan, and continues to increase its threat level. Moreover, a Five-Year Strategy for National Economic Development was announced at the Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK), convened for the first time in thirty-six years, and it appears, in fact, that nuclear and missile development is prioritized over economic development. Domestically, Kim Jong Un was installed as Chairman of the WPK and Chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, continuing his regime’s dictatorship and reign of terror through purges.
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