The test shows that Pyongyang is building weapons that "fire farther and higher", Seoul says.

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.

  • zephorah@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    24 days ago

    There is a social effect that might be at play here. Once 1 person leaves a get together it gives permission for everyone else to leave, and so that happens. Just so with Trump.

    The United States WAS the de facto leader of the free world. Then T showed up mad bunny style, double middle fingers in the air, announcing to everyone “I do what I want.” He broke things. The United States was the leader of the free world. Behavior there sets an example.

    So not only is there a permissive effect here, to go mad bunny style, double middle fingers in the air, announcing “I do what I want”, (see: Israel, Russia) the figure everyone used to look to for guidance and resolution to awful things like this has been absent for 8 yrs. Biden is not that guy, he was just a place holder to keep trump out.

    The United States, for all our blemishes, was a stabilizing force. Until Trump. We are witnessing the long term impact of that loss, the cracks formed by the impact of Trump on the world stage.

    Mad bunny, double middle fingers in the air, is looking for more of that destabilizing impact, starting Jan 6.

    On another note, crops aren’t great and resources are thin elsewhere, this is likely a power grab in the name of resources, as the world winds down to being completely inhospitable. What is it the homesteaders say? Only 40 harvests left, at the most.

    • Sundial@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      24 days ago

      I 100% agree that Trump broke those cracks but I feel like Biden is normalizing it. Israel should never have been this emboldened to do what they have done. Ukraine is being armed enough to make Russia bleed, not win. And this has caused Russia to make deals they normally wouldn’t, and shouldn’t, make like the missile technology with North Korea and the whole BRICS thing. For all of Bidens wins in domestic policies, I feel as if he will not be remembered fondly in history for what he allowed happen on the international stage.