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[Max™]

So apparently he's been seen around in more areas and is credibly not dead, so he emerged from his hole and we get 6 more weeks of missile tests since he saw his shadow.

I mean, not sure how he could miss it, not sure anybody could.

[martinuzz]

North Korea attacked and blew up the joint North-South Korean border post that was installed to ease communication between the two nations.
This is the first military act of aggression between the countries in many years.

[Folly]

But probably not the last.

[ChairmanPoo]

North Korea attacked and blew up the joint North-South Korean border post that was installed to ease communication between the two nations.
This is the first military act of aggression between the countries in many years.

Depends on your definition of "many years". Un started his regime in the early 2010s by shelling shit in SK and they've had other incidents since, sometimes with responses from SK, sometimes not. It doesnt happen every week, but there's been some sort of incident every couple of years.

[feelotraveller]

North Korea attacked and blew up the joint North-South Korean border post that was installed to ease communication between the two nations.
This is the first military act of aggression between the countries in many years.

Huh?  Since when is demolishing one of your own buildings (in your own country) a "military act of aggression".  Not quite sure why you're spin doctoring to this extent... 

https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20200616008258325

Communications have been on the fritz for quite a while.  NK are upset that SK have not lived up to their part of the 2018 agreement and have got increasingly belicose.  Military occupation of the 'demilitarised' zone is threatened. This action was also foreshadowed Saturday and drew no diplomatic response.  Read all that against the background of US and SK inaction on (or rolling back of) their very limited concessions/agreements.  Sure NK are behaving like little brats but please lets not get sucked into the propaganda - on either side.

[Reelya]

2020, what a year. And it's not even halfway done yet. Will there be a 2021 at this rate?

[Starver]

Completely on the other side of the region (arguably at least one region away), but lazily mentioning it here anyway, is a skewed version of the Axe Incident that lead to Operation Paul Bunyon. (Not that either side would do a Paul Bunyan II, it sounds like. Which is probably for the best given who their opposite number is.)

[Reelya]

https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/disappearance-of-kim-jonguns-sister-kim-yojong-an-ominous-sign/news-story/670f15df8fa62f275dbaabf5621c6807

Just days ago, rumours were rife that Kim Jong-un was in a coma and power was about to pass to his sister.

But pictures of the North Korean dictator have begun popping up all over the place.

Last week, there were snaps of him chairing political meetings here and inspecting typhoon ravaged fields there.

However, now there is another rumour taxing the minds of North Korea watchers. Where has Kim’s loyal sister, Kim Yo-jong, gone?

One minute she was leader-in-waiting, now she has vanished. She has been notably lacking from any recent images trickling out of the Hermit Kingdom.

Experts have said Ms Kim may have, inadvertently, made the biggest mistake a pretender to the Pyongyang throne can make. And it could end very badly for her indeed.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Thread title remains accurate.

How many times are we gonna have to go through the "Kim killed his uncle with rabid dogs oh wait he's fine" cycle?

[Starver]

At some point he runs out of uncles, I suppose...

[Loud Whispers]

All the headlines are just kim bait to see if he really kicked the bucket

[Cheesy Honkers]

I am King John Un. I died. Change the world. My final message. Goodbye.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/kim-jong-uns-nephew-kim-han-sol-goes-missing-after-meeting-with-cia/7PVDPOLDSVNB7OFHQ2TK4TOM7Q

[Starver]

...not WW3/Ukraine material, so bringing it here.

NK has test-launched a rocket (ICBM-class, whatever they say, but they don't seem to be too bothered) to a height of 6,000km.

Sent on a mostly vertical trajectory, to land practically in their back yard (in the Sea of Japan), prior generations of missile were sent to 3,000km and 4,500km. Estimates were that these would translate to 10,000km and 13,000km range, respectively, in more typical inter-continental trajectories. The former put LA in range, the latter took in basically the whole of the US (just). And, in the other direction would have easily found Europe (just over 10k km to Portugal) or even most of Africa (Johannesburg is just a tad over 13k km away.)

Assuming 6k km test-height maps to ~16k km of mission range (it'll not be so linear, but I'm not sure quite how non-linear) then that's a significant additional buffer for either a more evasive/surreptitious track or a greater payload. Though not, in itself, looking like a valid 'peaceful' satellite launcher. Much of South America remains out of the theoretical range (Brasilia is 17.5k-ish km away, launching westerly, Santiago more than 18k km easterly, as an example), but any of NK's traditional opponents are within the conceptual strike-range.

Not that they will, or necessarily have the warheads necessary (to make a launch more than a kinetic/explosive 'demonstration', once the world stops retaliating and works out what the provocation actually consisted of), but it's all adding to the obvious capabilities and potential ambitions in this peculiar little corner of the world.

[Starver]

Transposed, for actual relevence:

[...], this might be a girl to keep an eye on!

Spoiler: Why it was transposed... (click to show/hide)

[1] I'm sure there's a Best Korea thread I can necro, but I couldn't find it... Went back into 2016, so I'm convinced I missed it well within the first half of my backtrack through General. So I thought I'd mark the news here as the closest 'near miss', subjectively.

It was either loud whispers or metal slime hunt that made that thread, if you'd rather try to narrow it down that way.

E: Yeah, it was MSH. Wasn't hard to find, last post was just last year, it's just that the thread title tended to be odd.

  ...didn't even find it in my own post history. But clearly rushed the search.