Kim Jong Un Gives Up On Trump, Prepares to Endure U.S. Sanctions
(WorldNews North Korea)

(Bloomberg) -- Kim Jong Un is giving up on hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump will lift sanctions anytime soon. Alongside the North Korean leader´s latest saber-rattling this week was a stunning admission: Efforts to engage the U.S. had failed. Kim´s plan now is to find a way to survive under crushing economic sanctions while building an even stronger nuclear deterrent to force Washington to compromise. `We can never sell our dignity, which we have so far defended as something as valuable as our own lives, in the hope of a brilliant transformation,` Kim said, according to excerpts from an unusual seven-hour speech this week to party leaders in Pyongyang. `The DPRK-U.S. standoff, which...