A propaganda video from North Korean state television shows what they claimed to be the Hwasong 17. It would be the largest intercontinental ballistic missile the North Korea had ever tested. And when you bear in mind that they had already shown the capability to produce missiles that can reach the US mainland, that's a really big missile. That test caused international condemnation as it sort of was launched towards Japan. But to be honest, given the scale of it, no one near the level of condemnation, or in fact coverage.
The country has been slinging missiles skyward at an alarming pace, and with ever-greater technological advancement. We ask why things are heating up, and how the West might at last cool them down. Reforms to Indonesia’s criminal code that sparked mass protests in 2019 are back; restrictions including an extramarital-sex ban look set to pass. And Wales’s booming leech-and-maggot business.
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