http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7982874.stm It certainly looks so.. NK seem to want to defy everything with their missile launching :/ Apparently the US might be in range. Pretty crap for you blokes
It's ridiculous that nobody shot it down. In leaving the missile to fly they've effectively told North Korea; "Well we're not going to stop you doing bad things, but you sure can bet we're gonna whine a lot afterwards!"
I don't think they shot it down because NK were saying 'if you shoot it down, we'll take it as a declaration of war', and Japan were like 'if you shoot it, we'll anally rape you back to the stone age'. So I guess it's a cold war :/
North Korea couldn't wage a war with Japan though. NK's army is tremendous, yes, but their navy consists of two bathtubs and four oars and their airforce is a guy flying a kite. So while they may have a huge army, they can't attack anywhere that they can't walk to. Japan has no overseas territories to attack, so NK's only options for attacking Japan are: Missile bombing or Aerial Bombing: Japan's Navy consists almost entirely of Air Defense Destroyers and they have inumerable anti-missile sites on each of their islands. A long range assault of Japan is unfeasible even for advanced first world nations. Since NK is not quite so advanced and will probably be launching bombs from some kind of catapult or giant slingshot, Japan is more or less safe. Invasion: This is the only real possibility for fighting a war with Japan. It's a small country and NK's army is huge, and could probably overrun Japan. However, as I stated earlier, NK's navy might as well be made up of discarded hot tubs. Japan's Navy/maritime defense force is about the 4th most powerful in the world, behind the US, UK and France. It could decimate any attempt at invasion by NK. They wouldn't even make it to the doorstep. That's why I'm dissapointed they didn't do anything about it, I guess. Someone really needed to give them a good hard smack with reality and say "we're not going to put up with your bullshit".
Yeah, you would have thought that they had gotten the picture by now with the whole 'kicked out of the UN, trade embargo' scheme.
They're pretty much the internet trolls of the UN, come to think of it. You can mock them and ban them as much as you like and they just keep coming back.
At this point in life it actually wouldent surpise me of a world war alot of people hate alot of differnet countries. theres North Koera alot of countries dont like and theres us the US that alot of people dont like. we have to just wait and see. its really stupid how everyone fights and hates eachother its sicking
The difference is the USA is a nuclear armed superpower while North Korea is a third world mess, I suppose.