N. Korea fires ballistic missile toward East Sea
Korea HeraldJUL 2023
The DPRK violated several UN Security Council resolutions by launching an ICBM Thursday morning. To maintain peace and security across the Korean Peninsula and beyond, Pyongyang must stop its provocative and destabilizing acts. North Korea must promptly resume talks. The US and its regional partners condemn the North Korea-Russia military cooperation, denouncing its illegal weapons transfers and the recent deployment of North Korean soldiers to Russia.
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.
As the US presidential election approaches, North Korea's latest test launch of the ICBM capable of striking the continental US should send shockwaves through the US foreign policy establishment. North Korea is raising regional tensions, and Pyongyang's test launch significantly threatens US national security.
There is an 18% chance that North and South Korea will be at war before 2050, according to WPR and the Meteaculus prediction community.