BREAKING: North Korea Fires Unidentified Projectile Off Its Coast

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And odds are, China will too what they can to intervene and smooth everything over so nobody actually has to go to war, and nobody has to deal with the inevitable humanitarian crisis that comes from North Korea's fall. I think this is what will happen only because it's what happens literally every time North Korea rattles its sabres too hard, including the big nuclear scare earlier in the month.

Hmmm, they fired short range missiles.   Do we ask permission when we want to test our short range missiles from our own coast into our own exclusive economic zone?

We shoot missiles off the coast of California towards some remote atoll called Kwajalein. They have a vast amount of Pacific Ocean with nothing in between.

ETA- I don't justify that, either, BTW. It is just a statement about what the US does. And those launches are ICBMs, methinks, since they make it all the way there, which, if one launched over the North Pole, would reach anywhere. I think.