
Both approaches failed, and North Korea has kept expanding its arsenal. Kim, in which he strove for a single, sweeping deal, and the “strategic patience” approach of former President Barack Obama, which sought to compel the North to negotiate through sanctions and other forms of pressure. The administration, which has been conducting a North Korea policy review, recently indicated that it would pursue a strategy somewhere between Mr. Analysts have since warned that the North could carry out more tests or other provocations in an attempt to bolster its leverage in any talks with the Biden administration. On March 25, North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles, its first such test in a year. Trump ended in 2019 with no agreement on dismantling the North’s nuclear weapons facilities or easing American-led sanctions imposed on the North. It has doubled down on that insistence since direct talks between its leader, Kim Jong-un, and President Donald J. North Korea has long said that it will not give up its nuclear arsenal until the United States changes its “hostile” policy. will find itself in a very grave situation,” he said. “We will be compelled to press for corresponding measures, and with time the U.S. Biden’s remark “clearly reflects his intent to keep enforcing the hostile policy toward” North Korea. chief executive made a big blunder,” Kwon Jong-gun, a senior official at North Korea’s Foreign Ministry, said in a statement published by the North’s state news media. Biden made a brief reference to North Korea in his speech before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, saying that its nuclear program and Iran’s presented “serious threats to American security and the security of the world.” He said the United States and its allies would deal with them “through diplomacy as well as stern deterrence.”

They included warnings that the North might respond to the Biden administration’s recent statements about the country with unspecified “corresponding measures.” The statement, attributed to a senior official, was one of three that the North released on Sunday directed at the United States and its ally South Korea. SEOUL - North Korea said on Sunday that President Biden had made “a big blunder” by calling its nuclear arsenal a threat last week, and it warned that the United States would face “a very grave situation” if it maintained its “hostile policy” toward Pyongyang.
