Left: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits a Choe Hyon-class on August 18, 2025, in this photo released by North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency. (CNA)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un delivered his most forceful condemnation yet of United States and South Korean military cooperation on August 18, 2025, during a highly symbolic inspection of the nation's most advanced warship. Speaking from the port city of Nampo while touring the 5,000-ton destroyer Choe Hyon, Kim characterized the ongoing Ulchi Freedom Shield military exercises as "the clearest expression of a will to provoke war" and labeled the US-South Korean alliance as "openly hostile" toward North Korea.
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MBA in quantitative finance.
Chief Operating Officer of Atlas.
When I am not running Atlas operations, I write and focus on the economy, capital markets, strategic foreign policy, and innovation in the defense sector.
MBA in quantitative finance.
