'While we're all watching Kim Jong Un's countdown clock, it's unclear how prepared the US is to respond to his New Year's resolution to wreak more havoc unless his demands are met.' Analysis by sam_vinograd
Samantha Vinograd is a CNN national security analyst. She is a senior adviser at the University of Delaware's Biden Institute, which is not affiliated with the Biden campaign. Vinograd served on President Barack Obama's National Security Council from 2009 to 2013 and at the Treasury Department under President George W. Bush. Follow her @sam_vinograd. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. View more opinion articles on CNN.
While Kim Jong Un may like hyperbole almost as much as President Donald Trump does, his regime's latest claim of successfully conducting"another crucial test" is a cause for serious concern as analysts determine exactly what transpired. North Korea has given US negotiators until the end of the year to make a breakthrough in nuclear negotiations -- by which it means giving into Kim's demands that the US give North Korea what it wants, like sanctions relief.Kim's extortion campaign is probably premised on his assessment that President Trump will do anything to hold onto his love affair with Kim -- no matter how blatantly Kim's cheating on it.
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