La Corée du Nord défie une nouvelle fois les États-Unis

Après une accalmie la Corée du Nord a effectué hier un important lancement de missile. S'il faut en croire les informations qui émanent du pays, ce serait le tir avec la plus longue portée enregistré jusqu'à maintenant. Pour l'instant la réplique américaine est particulièrement sobre.

 "The most remarkable thing about North Korea’s missile test on Tuesday wasn’t that it happened; as the country’s nuclear-weapons program has entered the final stretch of development, Kim Jong Un has steadily demonstrated missiles of increasing range and nuclear bombs of increasing power. What was most striking was how the Trump administration initially responded to one of North Korea’s most provocative actions yet toward the United States.

North Korea dramatically concluded a 74-day pause in its nuclear and missile tests, which had raised hopes that tensions on the Korean peninsula were easing. It launched into the waters off Japan a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that, according to an assessment by the arms-control expert David Wright, appears to “have more than enough range to reach Washington, D.C., and in fact any part of the continental United States,” challenging the American president’s professed commitment to preventing North Korea from acquiring the capability to fire nuclear weapons at the U.S. (Wright points out that it’s unclear whether the missile displayed on Tuesday can carry a heavy nuclear warhead to the American mainland.) Donald Trump and his advisers reacted with considerable restraint."

 https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/trump-north-korea-missile/546938/