Katharina Peters: Kim Jong Un has given up his long-standing official goal of peaceful reunification with South Korea. In his speech to parliament in mid-January, Kim described South Korea as the "most hostile state" Peters: South Korea's president recently warned that North Korea could try to disrupt April's parliamentary elections.
The dangerous thing about the current situation is that for the first time he can test his missiles under real war conditions, Peters says. She says there is a tendency to react very harshly over an escalation.