North Korea goes even more nuclear | The Global Story

Описание: North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un has announced plans to expand the country's nuclear arsenal at ‘an exponential rate’, according to state media reports.

His announcement comes as China’s president, Xi Jinping, is making his first visit to Pyongyang this week since 2019 – the same year Donald Trump met Kim Jong Un several times for failed talks on denuclearisation.

We speak to the BBC’s Celia Hatton about why China might now be trying to keep North Korea in check.

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00:00 Introduction
01:13 The changing ways North Korea is portrayed
02:51 China's 'big brother' relationship with North Korea
06:13 North Korea's path to nuclear weapons and why they wanted one
09:27 Donald Trump's attempts to engage North Korea
14:05 Kim Jong Un's relationship with Vladimir Putin
17:07 China's anxieties around North Korea and the wider region
20:03 How Russia have impacted China's relationship with North Korea
21:25 Why Donald Trump has changed track on North Korea's nuclear programme