North Korea Conducts “Strategic” Test Amid Threat To Send A “Christmas Gift” To Trump
North Korea says that it has conducted a “strategic” test, likely of a large rocket motor, at a site it had previously partially dismantled as a good will gesture as part of negotiations with the United States over its ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs. Tensions have been steadily rising in recent months with the regime in Pyongyang recently threatening to send the U.S. government a provocative “Christmas gift,” almost certainly a reference to the potential of a new test of a long-range ballistic missile or even a nuclear weapon.