BREAKING: Japan issues a "go to shelter" warning in Hokkaido after NK missile launch

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8. Yes, Kim does this to get food. And to show strength in his own country.

Rather than shooting out over the ocean, sending missiles close to or over Japan, though? Yoiks. Not good. Knock it off, dude.

I'm going to share a couple of videos because they were fascinating to me, and taught me a lot more about the situation with N Korea.
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Let's talk about North Korea, perspective, and two projections... (one month ago)

The top comment is interesting:

@wrathsong 1 month ago (edited)
As a person who lived in South Korea for 10 years in total spanning nearly 2 decades as an academic, please know that we have a history of the USA and other countries giving food to North Korea as a point of negotiation to get them to stop shooting practice missiles. Add to that, the country's most concerned about these exercises are Japan and the United States. [snip - more]

There was hope that N Korea would talk to China about food. They got an offer from Russia instead to send food in trade for weapons. No word on whether NK and Russia have gone through with the deal AFAIK.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/white-house-russia-korea-engaged-food-arms-deal-98240629
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Let's talk about Russia, North Korea, and missteps... (11 days ago)