North Korea stokes rift with Seoul, emboldened by Russian support

Kim Jong Un plays up neighboring threat to tighten internal controls

JUNNOSUKE KOBARA, Nikkei staff writer

SEOUL -- North Korea continues to harden its stance toward South Korea a year after positioning Seoul as an enemy and abandoning the goal of unification, with Pyongyang increasingly playing into the growing rift between Russia and the West.

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