• Sylver@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What does he really expect? If he wants to play with nukes and threaten ultimate destruction every other week, this is what happens. A local deterrence force ready to retaliate.

    • transmatrix@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      These forces are more about containing/controlling China. NK just doesn’t want to be left out of the news.

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      1 year ago

      Violating a country’s airspace seems to be unnecessarily provoking.
      Not sure what the best way to handle North Korea is but this does seem like a questionable decision.

      • takeda@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        Given the relationships between NK and US they could just shoot it down without any warning. So either they couldn’t shoot it, or this is just made up.