“If the US miscalculates our people’s patience, forces something upon us and pursues sanctions and pressure without keeping a promise it made in front of the world, we have no option but to explore a new path in order to protect our sovereignty and achieve peace on the Korean peninsula,” said North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un during his televised New Year’s speech. Kim is sitting deep in a Chesterfield Club fauteuil and speaks with a low, somewhat slow voice. On a wall behind him hang the life-size portraits of his father, the “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il and the “Great Leader,” and still honorary president and founder of the nation, grandpa Kim Il-sung. We have no option but to explore a new path in order to protect our sovereignty and achieve peace on the Korean peninsula Kim Jong-Un new years remark 01/01/2019 – by Jan van der Made Listen “Now that North and South Korea decided on the path of peace and prosperity, we insist that joint military exercises with outside forces and deployment of war weapons such as outside strategic assets should no longer be allowed.” Last year, in a sudden diplomatic turnabout, after years of hostilities, relations between…