Timeline: North Korea’s weaponised diplomacy

North Korea has ramped up missile tests since Kim Jong Un became leader 10 years ago.

North Korea has launched two ballistic missiles into the sea Japan said on Thursday as the new Biden administration in the US entered the final stages of its policy review on the reclusive nuclear-armed state. “My sense is that this is probably North Korea’s testing of a new US president,” Robert Kelly, a professor of political science at South Korea’s Pusan National University told Al Jazeera. “Whenever there is a new president in the US, or South Korea, North Korea usually pulls some of kind of provocation. They want to say: ‘We’re still here’.”