North Korea seen unlikely to engage US after fall election, regardless of winner

FILE - North Korea's Kim Jong Un looks inside a jet cockpit at a Russian plant that builds fighter jets in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia, Sept. 15, 2023. Analysts see the growing Pyongyang-Moscow partnership giving Kim less reason to engage with U.S. leaders.

North Korea’s broadening ties with Russia make a possible re-engagement with the U.S. less appealing for Pyongyang despite an apparent overture from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, analysts said.