North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Sunday, and Washington's answer will almost certainly be more Pentagon spending and more overseas commitments—while the U.S. southern border stays wide open.
The launches mark Pyongyang's second weapons test in roughly a week and come days after the regime rejected a United Nations resolution demanding it halt its nuclear activities. Every missile North Korea fires gives the permanent Washington class another excuse to deepen American military entanglement on a peninsula the United States has been policing for seventy years.
South Korea's military said both missiles were fired from the eastern coastal city of Wonsan roughly three hours apart. The first flew approximately 280 miles and the second more than 370 miles, both landing in the sea. South Korean and U.S. authorities are analyzing the launches, with the first missile presumed to belong to the Hwasong-11 series, according to Reuters.
Japan detected the launches but confirmed the projectiles did not land in its territorial waters or exclusive economic zone. Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi called the tests a threat to
