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Today (30th) marks the 10th anniversary of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's appointment as Supreme Commander of the People's Army.



In the meantime, we have delivered a series of reports looking back on the 10 years of Kim Jong-un's era, and today, as the last order, Kim Jong-un's diplomacy, which made his splendid debut on the international stage, was reviewed by Ahn Jung-shik, a reporter specializing in North Korea.



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Kim Jong-un and Trump met somewhat awkwardly against the backdrop of the North Korean and American flags.



The world's attention was drawn to the historic North Korea-US summit.



[Kim Jong-un/Chairman of the North Korean State Affairs Commission (Singapore, June 2018): False prejudices and practices sometimes covered our eyes and ears, but we overcame everything and came to this point.]



[Trump/President of the United States (6, 2018) May, Singapore): It will be a huge success. I am sure he will build a genuinely deep relationship with



North Korea

.]

The supreme leader of the hermit country North Korea made a splendid debut on the international stage.



But that was it.



Hanoi in 8 months.



[Trump/President of the United States (Hanoi, February 2019): Me and Secretary Pompeo thought it was not good to sign something (with North Korea).]



North Korea sticks to Yongbyon nuclear disarmament and President Trump overcomes domestic political crisis The North Korea-U.S. negotiations ran into difficulties as they took the superpower of a break-up of talks for the sake of peace.



[Kim Jong-un / Supreme People's Assembly Municipal Speech (April 2019): I am neither pleased nor motivated to have a summit meeting such as the DPRK-U.S. summit in Hanoi recreated.] There was no



breakthrough at the Inter-Korean Summit in Panmunjom

, either.

, North Korea is even showing skepticism about improving relations between the United States and North Korea.



[Kim Jong-un / Party Central Committee Plenary Meeting Report (January 2020): The US military and political threat will never end.

Foreshadowing a long-term confrontation with the US...

.]



It seems that North Korea's current security strategy is to counter the US based on nuclear weapons.



However, negotiations with the U.S. are likely to be carried out in parallel, and the next move of North Korea is expected to be revealed at the party plenary meeting that has been in progress since the 27th.



(Video editing: Jo Moo-hwan)