B. Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea and its largest city with more than 3 million residents. The spy agency said Kim also has also banned fishing and salt production at sea to prevent seawater from being infected with the virus. Officially, the highly secretive regime says North Korea has no cases of COVID-19.

Q: Kim reportedly had two people executed over economic issues as the pandemic cut the nation’s business with its top trading partner to a fourth. What is North Korea’s biggest trading partner and benefactor?

A. China

B. Japan

C. South Korea

D. United States

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A. North Korea’s trade with China in the first 10 months of this year totaled $530 million, about 25% of the corresponding figure last year. North Korea’s economy also has been hit hard by punishing U.S.-led sanctions.

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Q: Kim reportedly also is worried that his friendly ties with President Donald Trump could become useless with Biden’s victory. Kim and Trump met three times in 2018 and 2019. The first meeting was held in what Asian city-state?

A. Bangkok

B. Hanoi

C. Panmunjom

D. Singapore

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D. Singapore is a city-state composed of one main island and 64 small islands and islets off the tip of the Maylay Peninsula. Bangkok is the capital of Thailand, which is partly on the peninsula. Kim and Trump later met in Vietnam’s capital Hanoi and Panmunjom, a North Korean village on the border with South Korea.

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Q: After the Singapore meeting, Trump said, "There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea." But, little progress has been made since to “denuclearize” the Korean Peninsula. Since the talks, North Korea has continued ...

A. Ballistic missile tests

B. Nuclear bomb tests

C. Both

D. Neither

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A. North Korea continued to produce nuclear material but has not set off a nuclear explosion since 2017. It has conducted multiple short-range ballistic missile tests and engine tests for a long-range missile “that could enhance Kim’s ability to threaten our homeland,” according to U.S. military officials.

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