Isolated North Korea struggles to throw off Chinese yoke

Pyongyang eager to conduct nuclear test but risks offending Beijing

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, and Chinese President Xi Jinping stroll in the premises of the Kumsusan guest house in Pyongyang in June 2019. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP).

HIROSHI MINEGISHI, Nikkei senior staff writer

TOKYO -- The results of the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 8 have significant ramifications for North Korea's nuclear arms and missiles programs. They will affect, in one way or another, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's effort to fulfill his weapons ambitions.

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