North Korea is testing exactly how far that reluctance goes. North Korean missile launches are all too routine, but this, although not entirely unprecedented, was deliberately provocative. Most North Korean launches land harmlessly in the sea. But existential threats have a way of focusing the mind, and the Japanese view a nuclear North Korea as exactly that. But the utter failure of international efforts to block the North’s development of a viable nuclear arsenal will, nevertheless, have consequences.

Source: National Post September 01, 2017 21:11 UTC