RE: NK is threatening with nuking US
September 25, 2017 at 5:41 pm
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2017 at 5:50 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Actually, i don’t believe North Korea fired missile over South Korea or the US. It did fire missiles over japan. But a country’s sovereign airspace does not extend to the lowest altitude at which a satellite can remain in orbit. The apogee of intermediate to long range ballistic missile trajectory is typically way above that.
So as long as North Korea took care to make sure its missiles overflew japan at above lowest possible altitude where a satellite can fly, iit may have been rude, but it violated no internationally law, and committee nothing that can be remotely described as an act of war, when it fired missiles over japan.
Being overly apoplectic when a smaller power is merely acquiring a tiny fraction of the capability to inflict damage on the hegemon compared to the hegemon’s ability to inflict upon everyone else in the world is always sanctimonious and usually does not look good for the hegemon, even if the small power is ruled by a fat little slime ball.
It particularly look bad when the hegemon is ruled by a totally off the rails bombastic buffoon who talks wipping the smaller country off the face of the earth, thus in every other countries eyes gave complete justification to the smaller power for wanting to have the capability to hurt the hegemon back.
So as long as North Korea took care to make sure its missiles overflew japan at above lowest possible altitude where a satellite can fly, iit may have been rude, but it violated no internationally law, and committee nothing that can be remotely described as an act of war, when it fired missiles over japan.
Being overly apoplectic when a smaller power is merely acquiring a tiny fraction of the capability to inflict damage on the hegemon compared to the hegemon’s ability to inflict upon everyone else in the world is always sanctimonious and usually does not look good for the hegemon, even if the small power is ruled by a fat little slime ball.
It particularly look bad when the hegemon is ruled by a totally off the rails bombastic buffoon who talks wipping the smaller country off the face of the earth, thus in every other countries eyes gave complete justification to the smaller power for wanting to have the capability to hurt the hegemon back.
