North Korea fired two projectiles, which Japanese authorities said appeared to be ballistic missiles, into the sea between the Korean peninsula and Japan on Thursday, according to the Japanese coast guard and South Korea’s military.
The first of two “unidentified projectiles” was fired on Thursday at 4:35 p.m. local time (0735 GMT) from South Phyongan Province, in the center of the country, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said in a series of statements. A second projectile was detected at 4:38 p.m. (0738 GMT).
The projectiles traveled an estimated 370 kilometers (230 miles) and reached an altitude of 90 kilometers (56 miles), the JCS said, calling them “short range”.
Japanese authorities said they had landed outside Japan’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), which extends 200 nautical miles (370 kilometers) from land.
While we were told North Korea was giving up their weapons, nothing of the kind has occurred and the world is a much less stable place. Trump’s efforts in North Korea are an utter failure. Our foreign policy is in shambles. North Korea is just one example.
I don’t think there is a Nobel Peace Prize in Trump’s future.
The US hasn’t had a sustainable, or honest, foreign policy since we decided to become an imperialist superpower at the end of WWII.
That’s when we hung out a sign reading Socialists and Communists need not apply for recognition in this world.
The rest has been self-preservation on the part of the “others.”