Monday, September 5, 2016

The fruits of 1953's inconclusiveness

Not too far from where the G-20 summit is taking place, this is occurring:


North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, as the leaders of the Group of 20 major economies held a summit in China, the North's main diplomatic ally.

The missiles were fired from a region south of the capital Pyongyang just after noon local time (0300 GMT) and flew about 1,000 km (600 miles), hitting Japan's air defense identification zone, the South's Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

"We are still analyzing details but this is a grave threat to our nation's security, and we express deep concern," the Japan Defence Ministry said in a statement.

The missile launches were the latest in a series of launches by the isolated North this year in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, supported by China, that ban all ballistic missile-related activities by the North.

Pyongyang rejects the ban as infringing its sovereign right to pursue a space program and self defense.
Shortly after the missile launches, South Korean President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met on the sidelines of the G20 summit and agreed to cooperate on monitoring the situation, a Japanese statement said.
The South's military said the missiles were medium-range Rodong-class, launched as a show of force timed to coincide with the G20 summit.
Proving once again that wars are never really over until one side has won and the other has lost.



5 comments:

  1. Ike knew more than you in your coddled life could ever hope to begin to imagine.

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  2. So you think it's great that North Korea is conducting missile tests with ever-greater frequency? You ought to be absolutely orgasmic when it miniaturizes a nuclear warhead to put on one of them.

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  3. No it's not OK and the world will tell them exactly that. Who are their friends? If Kennedy had done an Ike with Nam would have been fine with me. Why is out role to police the entire world?

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  4. So we don't get endlaved or incinerated.

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  5. Are we enslaved or incinerated yet for leaving Nam?

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