BREAKING: North Korea Fires Unidentified Projectile Off Its Coast

[A Theist]

North Korea fired an "unidentified projectile" off its east coast early Saturday local time, South Korea's military said.
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the projectile was fired from a site in the eastern province of Gangwon, according to the Yonhap News Agency.
Is the first reported launch since new sanctions were passed by the United Nations Security Council in early August in retaliation for previous missile launches.

http://thehill.com/policy/international/...projectile

[Minimalist]

Time for another blustering tweet from the WLB.

That'll teach them!

[vorlon13]

Meanwhile the North Korean people continue to suffer privations.




And meanwhile in South Korea

[Rev. Rye]

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.

[Anomalocaris]

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?

[A Theist]

Turns out that North Korea launched a dud. It failed. They actually launched three missiles. Two failed in flight and the third blew up shortly after launch.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.c...n.amp.html

[Fireball]

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.

[vorlon13]

Turns out that North Korea launched a dud. It failed. They actually launched three missiles. Two failed in flight and the third blew up shortly after launch.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.c...n.amp.html

Or "something" happened . . . . .

[Minimalist]

They have a vast amount of Pacific Ocean with nothing in between.

Doubtlessly killing any number of neutral fish.  More collateral damage.

[downbeatplumb]

They have a vast amount of Pacific Ocean with nothing in between.

Doubtlessly killing any number of neutral fish.  More collateral damage.

They were trying to kill Godzilla.