Breaking: North Korean missile landed in Japan's "exclusive economic zone" (sea)
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ApatheticAustrian
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« on: May 28, 2017, 05:07:01 PM »


https://twitter.com/juliamacfarlane/status/868947408671080449

https://twitter.com/juliamacfarlane/status/868948469653929986

https://twitter.com/juliamacfarlane/status/868950354947387393


this could become huge.
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« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2017, 05:15:14 PM »
EEZ is not territorial waters. Doesn't mean anything.
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« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2017, 05:27:11 PM »
Territorial disputes are quite fashionable in East Asia at the moment. I'm sure North Korea just wants one like all the other cool kids have
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« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2017, 06:57:50 PM »
North Korea bombed a South Korean island and killed a few civilians on it, a few years ago. Nothing came of it.
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« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2017, 01:56:03 PM »
Quote from: Blue3 on May 28, 2017, 06:57:50 PM
North Korea bombed a South Korean island and killed a few civilians on it, a few years ago. Nothing came of it.

I guess both sides though of it as "just another incident", like periodical clashes in the DMZ.
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« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2017, 01:57:15 PM »
Quote from: Blue3 on May 28, 2017, 06:57:50 PM
North Korea bombed a South Korean island and killed a few civilians on it, a few years ago. Nothing came of it.
I never understood why two nations always on edge just ignore events like that.
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« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2017, 03:26:02 PM »
Quote from: TheSaint250 on May 30, 2017, 01:57:15 PM
Quote from: Blue3 on May 28, 2017, 06:57:50 PM
North Korea bombed a South Korean island and killed a few civilians on it, a few years ago. Nothing came of it.
I never understood why two nations always on edge just ignore events like that.

Because going to war over it would create an incident 1000 times as big.
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