This is what it’s like to live next to North Korea


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Over the past week, North Korea’s reclusive leader has overseen military drills including simulations of storming border posts and demonstrations involving tanks. North Korean state media this week was full of images of Kim Jong-un surrounded by troops. Those drills came as the United States and South Korea held annual joint military exercises of their own. While Kim’s military posturing is nothing new for South Korea which has faced missile tests from the North for decades, the reclusive North Korean leader’s rhetoric is shifting. In January, he abandoned the doctrine of his father, Kim Jong Il, and grandfather, Kim Il...