North Korea's nuclear gamble pays off, with the WSJ's Jonathan Cheng

The Kim dynasty has outlasted every threat for 80 years. Wall Street Journal's Jonathan Cheng explains how, and why the Iran war just made Kim Jong Un seem untouchable.


North Korea has nuclear weapons, a succession plan hiding in plain sight, and a personality cult that has outlasted Stalin's and Mao's combined. Wall Street Journal's Beijing bureau chief Jonathan Cheng argues the…

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North Korea's nuclear bet paid off

The Iran war has upended nearly everything. North Korea is the exception: Kim Jong Un made sure his people never heard that Khamenei died. State media went dark. The silence tells you everything about how this regime works.

For three generations, the Kim dynasty has ruled on one premise: the man at the top is untouchable. The nuclear program was always part of that logic. **Kim…

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