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After Two Months of Quiet, North Korea Launches Another Ballistic Missile (arstechnica.com)
South Korean and U.S. officials have confirmed that North Korea has launched another ballistic missile into the sea of Japan. The ballistic missile test -- launched just after 3am Wednesday local time from Sin-ni in South Pyongyang -- is the first since an intermediate-range missile test in September. Ars Technica reports: In a statement to the press, a spokesperson for South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, "North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile early this morning from Pyongsong, South Pyongan [Province], to the east direction. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff is analyzing more details of the missile with the U.S. side." The U.S. Department of Defense and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have made an initial assessment that the missile was an ICBM, according to Office of the Secretary of Defense spokesperson Col. Robert Manning. The missile traveled 1,000 kilometers, flew over Japan, and landed in the sea east of Japan within its exclusive economic zone.
"Jap" is just short for Japanese. It is no different than saying "Brit" or "Yank". If you give Japanese people a form that has a field for "nationality", instead of writing out "ni-hon-jin", they will usually write a single kanji that basically means "Jap" (but in other contexts can mean "day" or "sun"). If they abbreviate their nationality down to one syllable, then why can't we?
As opposed to the brilliant job Obama did?
Do dream and think you can just ignore NK they are not going away. Either they arm themselves with full nuclear weapons or Trump does something.
Also if they have Nukes other will buy them off them (infact chances are they are being funded to do this development by others who want Nukes but not the heat of developing Nukes.) Others would be including terrorists (if you don't actually count NK as terrorists.)
A little patience and it will all work out and whiners who say that Trump does it all wrong will be kept safe by him doing it wrong so well that he ends up stopping them totally. Side note, we are at war there is just a lull in the fighting.