Trump to Face an Empowered North Korean Leader

embolden: 대담하게 만들다
When Donald Trump resumes the presidency in 2025, he will face a familiar and emboldened foreign leader, North Korea’s Kim Jong-un.

stall: 멎다
Those meetings eventually stalled and failed to achieve lasting changes in North Korea

mutual defense treaty: 상호방위조약
dispatch: 파견하다
Just this year North Korea signed a mutual defense treaty with Russia and officials in Washington in Seoul and Kyiv said Pyongyang has dispatched thousands of troops to assist Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

leverage: 영향력
Tighter ties with Russia may weaken Washington’s leverage.

veto: 거부하다
monitor: 감시하다
Russia has provided North Korea with oil and other imports and vetoed the extension of a panel of experts that had been monitoring United Nations sanctions violations.