North Asian tensions

摘要

The launch of increasingly long-range North Koreanrnmissiles, threatening the US territory of Guam in the PacificrnOcean, this year, and then the firing of a missile over thernJapanese island of Hokkaido in late August, indicaternPyongyang’s willingness to test US and Japanese red lines.rnIt suggests a recognition that the US has no good options,rnbut at the same time runs the risk, particularly with anrnunpredictable US president in post, of escalating tensionsrnto the point of retaliation.