The fear of a new war has pervaded the world: North Korea launched a missile (medium-range) on Monday night Hwasong-12, or intercontinental Hwasong-14) that has crossed the good Japan to end up in Pacific Ocean waters to over 1000 kilometers east of the country.
Striving for strong feelings sometimes loses clarity and understands important details. The first is that the maximum altitude reached by the missile during the trajectory would have been (according to South Korean sources) of more than 550 kilometers. In practice, it means that the overflow on Japan took place once and a half the altitude of the International Space Station (about 400 kilometers). Certainly the ability to reach such an altitude (overtaken in previous tests) confirms North Korean intercontinental ballistic capabilities: the International Space Station does not have the constantly-lit engines to stay in orbit ...
The second aspect is the fall in safe international waters: far from Nippo-US anti-missile capabilities. A missile fired and intercepted is a bad advertisement for a democracy, let alone a dictatorship.
In times of shortage of bad luck, North Korean progress in the missile sector is a boon to governments, the media, and especially defense industries. With the increasing "threats" the United States has been protecting poor South Korea (and South Korea) and has deployed radar systems to detect military activities far beyond the area concerned (v.articolo).
Titles on the front page on popular topics then distract attention from real internal problems. In Italy, to make an example, we use it ius soli instead of North Korea: excellent results for public distraction and long persistence at the bar and Parliament ...
Let's all say, missile testing has been a success. Perfect launch, harmless trajectory, crash on neutral territory. It is now to be assumed that "failures" in the history of North Korean missiles have been "wisdom self-destruction" to avoid mistakes. The fact that somebody is escaping is that the South Koreans, the Japanese or less - the Americans, but the son of the "dearest leader", the sborone (but definitely not "crazy" ) Kim Jong-un. If an orbiting missile went on for a few thousand miles and crashed between the rocks of the Nevada desert, Democratic People's Republic of Korea it would remain only a short article on history books and a lunar landscape.
Kim and Donald know this. But the show is for the public, not for professional actors on the stage.
(photo: US DoD / KCNA)
