North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile, day after claiming 800,000 have volunteered to fight US
CNNOCT 2022
As Election Day for the US presidential election approaches, North Korea's recent test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) aimed at striking the continental US should send chockwaves through the US foreign affairs establishment. North Korea is escalating regional tensions and with the test launch Pyongyang is seriously challenges US national security.
Kim Jung Un, the Supreme Leader of North Korea, sent a powerful message to all of his enemes with Thursday's ICBM test. It was a clear show of the DPRK's strategic capabilities and credibility in terms of its nuclear deterrence.
There is an 18% chance that North and South Korea will be at war before 2050, according to WPR and the Meteaculus prediction community.
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