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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?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 15 2017, @06:34AM
Why exactly do you think we don't do this? What do you think drone strikes, or "targeted killings" are? This [wikispooks.com] is a nonexhaustive list of US assassinations, primarily by the CIA, just since 1945.
The reality is that in war you are not really fighting people - you are fighting ideologies. If Kim Jong Un was assassinated, it might create a succession crisis but the only question would be who would take over the role of 'Supreme Leader', not whether they should become a US friendly democracy. Iraq is perhaps a good example of this. We destroyed their government and installed a puppet government we felt loyal. Within a decade Iraq had already begun to return to sectarian violence between Kurds, Shia, and Sunni while their leaders are turning against the United States and towards China/Iran/Russia. Democracy in a country where you have 3 large groups that fundamentally want to kill each other, and are willing to do just that - it just doesn't work. Politicians there have already been engaging in sectarian favoritism and trying to write as much into law. It's only a matter of time before they return to an iron fisted dictatorship, and the country will likely be vastly more stable for it.
The point of war is to remove the ability of the opponent to resist your advances. But removing somebody's ability to resist your advances, doesn't make them agree with you. It basically kicks the can. This, fundamentally, is why the United States has shown no real success in formal warfare since WW2. Now a days we're the body that starts wars and it's really hard to win wars that you start, because a country being invaded galvanizes against the foreigners. At the same time this is also how we undeniably won the cold war. We didn't win with weapons, but by making our culture and style of life something the Soviets clamored for. Make them agree with you, and the rest happens naturally. The problem is the US is losing the ability to convince other nations of the superiority of our system. The American Dream and gold plated streets can be rapidly revealed as propaganda, by simply streaming a stroll down most of any urban areas in our nation.
Wow, that was a rant. The whole point is yeah, we do kill people - and it's ultimately just about as effective as killing millions of people in attempts to change things. Which is to say, it's not.