...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...has fired an "unspecified ballistic missile," the South’s military said on Friday, the latest in a blitz of launches by Pyongyang, as Seoul warns Kim
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...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished...
may be close to conducting another nuclear test.
"North Korea fires unspecified ballistic missile towards the East Sea," Seoul’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, referring to the body of water also known as the Sea of Japan.
The JCS statement did not give further details.
With talks long-stalled, tensions on the peninsula are at their highest point in years, with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un last month declaring his country an "irreversible" nuclear power, effectively ending negotiations over his banned weapons programs.
On Tuesday, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol said the North was poised to conduct another nuclear test, which would be its seventh.
"It appears they have already completed preparations for a seventh nuclear test," he told parliament Tuesday during a budget speech.
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Seoul and Washington have repeatedly warned that Pyongyang could be close to testing an atomic bomb for the first time since 2017, after a flurry of ballistic missile launches.
Kim has made developing tactical nukes — smaller, battlefield-ready weapons — a priority, and Seoul recently warned the North could be preparing to conduct multiple consecutive nuclear tests as part of this drive.
Analysts say Pyongyang’s confidence that gridlock at the United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
will protect it from further sanctions has emboldened it to continue its weapons testing.
At a recent UN Security Council meeting to discuss Pyongyang’s launch over Japan, North Korea’s longtime ally and economic benefactor China blamed Washington for provoking the spate of missile tests.
The Security Council has been divided on responding to Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions for months, with Russia and China on the sympathetic side and the rest of the council pushing for punishment.