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Kim Jong Un blasts his way onto President Biden's foreign policy agenda

Last month the North Korean leader conducted more weapons tests than he did all last year

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North Korean Kim Jong Un | File photo

Jon Herskovitz and Jeong-Ho Lee | Bloomberg
As Joe Biden spars with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine and Xi Jinping over human rights, the U.S. president now has another pressing worry: Kim Jong Un’s missiles. 
 
Last month the North Korean leader conducted more weapons tests than he did all last year, including Sunday’s launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile for the first time since 2017. That effectively ended a halt to long-range missile tests put in place before his first summit in 2018 with Donald Trump, signaling Kim is preparing to soon fire a intercontinental ballistic missile that can reach across the U.S., from Los Angeles to the

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