North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile
North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile
North Korea fires intercontinental ballistic missile
North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, which flew for 86 minutes - the longest flight recorded yet - before falling into waters off its east, South Korea and Japan said.
The ICBM was fired at a sharply-raised angle and reached as high as 7,000km (4,350 miles). This means that it would have covered a further distance if it were launched horizontally.
Thursday's launch violated UN curbs and came at a time of deteriorating relations between the two Koreas and Pyongyang's increasingly aggresive rhetoric towards Seoul.
South Korea had also warned on Wednesday that the North was preparing to fire its ICBM close to the US presidential election on 5 November.
Why do I keep feeling like we're steering towards WW3 and any day now we're gonna have an assassination of an Archduke?
Every since the end of WWII there has regularly been things happening that felt like we were steering towards WWIII. You have to learn to live your life, you have no idea in advance what will actually start WWIII. There are of course plenty of signs but you don't know until after WWIII is over what were important. Even WWII when the first shots were fired did not have to become a world war, things just escalated in ways that you couldn't be sure at the time they would.
Don't real the above as you shouldn't work for peace, or that you shouldn't prepare for WWIII. You should be doing both at the same time. The cost of peace sometimes higher than the costs of war - and war is expensive! (peace can sometimes only be had at the cost of becoming a slave - I'd rather my kids die in war than become slaves)
I know there have been. But lately it feels like the structures the UN was responsible for maintaining to avoid another world war are just falling apart. Russia is invading Ukaraine using North Korean troops, Israel kills civilians, journalists, aid workers, UN soldiers with impunity. They've even just voted to ban the UNRWA from operating in the Gaza Strip in direct violation of UN law. It's clear China is trying to divest from the American economy to make them less dependant on it, no doubt to make ot easier for military action in their area without the big economic co sequences.
Maybe I am being all dark and gloomy and all this will pass. And I really hope thats the case. It just seems like it's worse than it's ever been in my memory.
My brain couldn't help but read this comment as:
My money's on China coast guard accidentally killing some Filipino navy personnel, or launching a 'humanitarian' mission to the Kinmen islands in the wake of a natural disaster such as the current typhoon kong-rey
Because we are