Last week, North Korea launched a missile from a naval destroyer. Kim Jong-un said the launch was proof that arming ships with nuclear weapons was “making satisfactory progress.”
“But the test, and Kim’s mildly upbeat appraisal, were designed to reverberate well beyond the deck of the 5,000-tonne destroyer-class vessel, the Choe Hyon—the biggest warship in the North Korean fleet,” wrote The Guardian’s Tokyo correspondent Justin McCurry, in an analysis piece published this morning. “His pointed reference to nuclear weapons was made as the U.S. and Israel continued their air bombardment of Iran—a regime Donald Trump had warned, without offering evidence, was only weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.”
