He’s really spelling things out here: we’re doing this so Trump wakes up and smells the need to do a deal right now. (Really, this has been part of the goal since this year’s missile-testing campaign began back in May.) #NorthKorea
Really underscores what @NarangVipin and I wrote earlier this year about Kim’s “maximum pressure” campaign: 26 missile tests and one static engine test later, the pressure is still insufficient for Trump to be “surprised.” foreignaffairs.com/articles/north… 
@NarangVipin ...and so the pressure is set to rise. Kim Yong Chol still references to the end-of-year deadline, which suggests we should see more testing before the year ends. (Probably before the 5th Plenum of the 7th CC of the WPK convenes.)
@NarangVipin Also, given the “very important” test that‘s set to improve their “strategic position”—and now Kim Yong Chol talking about surprises—we have more reason to expect the demonstration of a *qualitatively new* capability that we haven’t seen before. Solid-fuel ICBM/IRBM looks likely.
@NarangVipin (Maybe we’ll even see a new “Korean-style heavy vehicle” for the TEL.)
