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posted by martyb on Thursday September 14 2017, @11:45PM   Printer-friendly

The BBC is reporting that North Korea has fired another missile:

North Korea has fired a missile eastwards from its capital, Pyongyang, towards Japan, media reports say.

Japan said that the missile likely passed over its territory and has warned residents to take shelter, local media report.

South Korea and the US are analysing the details of the launch, the South's military said.

Al Jazeera reports:

The projectile was launched at 6:57am (21:57GMT Thursday) and flew over the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido before falling into the Pacific Ocean - 2,000km east of Cape Erimo, said Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.

"Japan protests the latest launch in the strongest terms and will take appropriate and timely action at the United Nations and elsewhere, staying in close contact with the United States and South Korea," Suga told reporters.

South Korea's defence ministry said the missile travelled about 3,700km and reached a maximum altitude of 770km - both higher and further than previous tests.

Just more saber rattling? Another step in escalation? What's next?


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 15 2017, @02:41AM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 15 2017, @02:41AM (#568241) Journal

    Yes, now, and maybe I was just speaking in generalities.

    I would much rather see ten presidents of the United States killed, than to see ten thousand American troops killed in battle. Ditto for Kim, and any other country we might wish to consider. From mankind's earliest history, worthless shits have sat on thrones, and ordered hundreds, thousands, and more to march off to face death.

    This is one of the things that proves that mankind is NOT evolving, as some claim.

    When the world's "leaders" convene to do battle with one another for their causes in a courtyard at the UN, THEN I may concede that mankind has "evolved".

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15 2017, @06:13AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15 2017, @06:13AM (#568320)

    Remind me how WW1 started.

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Friday September 15 2017, @02:00PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 15 2017, @02:00PM (#568431) Journal

      The world war was triggered by a mesh of conflicting and self contradictory treaties that all those worthless shits had woven together to "protect" themselves, and their countries. The assassination meant almost nothing, in and of itself. It was all the idiot politicos who started WW1.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Friday September 15 2017, @04:49PM

        by bob_super (1357) on Friday September 15 2017, @04:49PM (#568536)

        Pratchett/Gaiman, Good Omens: "You think wars get started because some old duke gets shot, or someone cuts off someone's ear, or someone's sited their missiles in the wrong place. It's not like that. That's just, well, just reasons, which haven't got anything to do with it. What really causes wars is two sides that can't stand the sight of one another and the pressure builds up and up and then anything will cause it. Anything at all."

  • (Score: 2) by number11 on Friday September 15 2017, @06:25AM (1 child)

    by number11 (1170) Subscriber Badge on Friday September 15 2017, @06:25AM (#568324)

    The world lost something, when the leader was no longer expected to be riding his horse out in front of the troops when they charged.

    Or maybe that was just in movies.