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Anton Sokolin
Anton Sokolin is the data correspondent at NK News. He previously worked at Reuters, TASS and the Korea Trade Promotion Corporation (KOTRA).
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News North Korea set to increasingly use ‘gray zone’ tactics to challenge US: ReportDPRK and others look to exploit space between diplomacy and conflict to threaten without provoking war, NIC warns North Korea will increasingly exploit the space between peaceful diplomacy and direct conflict to threaten the U.S. without provoking confrontation, according to a new declassified U.S. intelligence report. The U.S. National Intelligence Council (NIC) predicts that North Korea, along with China, Iran, and Russia, will use so-called gray zone tactics — which include everything from cyberattacks and harassing ships and planes to Pyongyang’s balloon launches — to challenge the U.S. while avoiding direct war through 2030. © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |