U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un were convening in Singapore for a historic summit to discuss security disputes, Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program, and the six-decade-old division of the Korean Peninsula. So how did we get her
North Korea's Road To The Nuclear Club
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The North Korean regime justified the race toward military might by portraying (through propaganda like this painting) a brutish America as a lurking threat.
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After the death of Kim Il Sung in 1994, his son Kim Jong Il (pictured, right) took over a regime that was a menace mostly to its own people. But the situation was about to become more dangerous.
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U.S. President Bill Clinton reacts to a question after discussing reports that North Korea had developed a secret underground nuclear complex.
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Throughout the '90s, even as famine racked the country, North Korea’s secret, and vastly expensive, nuclear-weapons program was developing apace.