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Eugene

(62,646 posts)
Sun Jan 30, 2022, 08:04 AM Jan 2022

North Korea missile tests: Biggest launch since 2017

Source: BBC

North Korea missile tests: Biggest launch since 2017

30 January 2022

North Korea has conducted what is thought to be its biggest missile launch since 2017.

The weapon was apparently an intermediate range missile which reached an altitude of 2,000km before coming down in the Sea of Japan.

Japan, South Korea and the US have all condemned the launch, the seventh test this month.

The UN prohibits North Korea from ballistic and nuclear weapons tests, and has imposed strict sanctions.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-60186538

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North Korea missile tests: Biggest launch since 2017 (Original Post) Eugene Jan 2022 OP
UN prohibits lots of stuff no one cares about. Alexander Of Assyria Jan 2022 #1
We all know the game EndlessWire Feb 2022 #2
If NK put away the only card they have...they would be invaded. Thats their thinking. Alexander Of Assyria Feb 2022 #3
 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
1. UN prohibits lots of stuff no one cares about.
Sun Jan 30, 2022, 08:50 AM
Jan 2022

Why does no one condemn America for launching its near uncountable number of nuclear tipped missile tests, uranium enrichment for 10,000 bombsx, daily military exercises from multiple branches of a massive military… at the rate of $800,000,000,000 per year, year after year,…all over the world?

Many do, u just won’t hear about it in America.

EndlessWire

(7,236 posts)
2. We all know the game
Thu Feb 3, 2022, 04:19 PM
Feb 2022

that NK is playing. Yawn. They want something from us, so they play the "terror" card. All they have to do is make nice, put away their nuclear card, and join the world community. Quit threatening their neighbors. Is that so hard? Yeah, it is, because they have that super asshole running their country.

Meanwhile, you ask why no one condemns America for blah, blah, blah...well, there is plenty of condemnation for bad things we do (just not of Democrats.) We wouldn't have condemned Russia from its preps, if they hadn't annexed Crimea and massed invasion strength troop levels along the Ukraine borders. Are you suggesting that we do nothing to protect ourselves from aggression by those who would like nothing better than to see us fall? This is very much like 1930s Germany, and what they did before they started WWII.

Do you see us crushing NK over this? No. Lil' Kim will continue his game, while we puzzle over the Ukranian crisis. Should he miscalculate and nail Japan with a missile, he'll get his. We are pledged to protect Japan. But, as long as we see him working on his nuclears, we will treat him like the pariah he is. Nothing else to do here.

 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
3. If NK put away the only card they have...they would be invaded. Thats their thinking.
Fri Feb 4, 2022, 06:39 AM
Feb 2022

Are they wrong?

Invaded once by Americans already.

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