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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, two months after the North claimed to have tested engines for a new harder-to-detect missile capable of striking distant U.S. targets in the region.

The launch was the North’s first this year. Experts say North Korea could ramp up its provocative missile tests as a way to influence the results of South Korea’s parliamentary elections in April and the U.S. presidential election in November.

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[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

He supposedly already has plans for his... sister? to take over if he dies.The bigger peoblem is they're a bigger warhawk than kimmy.

[-] hark@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Isn't that the same sister that western media was fawning over when they thought the current leader had died?

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Surely. I doubt they'd fawn over anyone else.

[-] Neil@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

She may already be the actual decision-maker/leader and he's just a figurehead. There's quite a bit of evidence that's the case.

[-] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Hmm, that'd definitely explain the rise in warhawkery.

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