World Tries Not To Go Ballistic over North Korea

A routine day's work responding to emails and ghostwriting. in the evening, a small meeting at the Milton Local History Group planning how to proceed with the research of WWI war dead of Milton in readiness for 2018.

Major news today is the successful launch by the North Koreans of an intercontinental ballistic missile. It was flown at a high trajectory, reaching a height of 2,802km (1,741 miles) and travelled 933km (580 miles). Basically it was shot very high so as not to go very far (not even as far as Japan. However the same missile on a lower trajectory could now reach Alaska, which has initiated calls for an emergency UN meeting tomorrow.

With Kim Jong-un being unpredictable, especially with any perceived threat to his position, Talks not working, China and Russia stepping back from more sanctions or action at the moment and President Trump's promise of action, we live in very dangerous times. Whatever scenario being looked at is likely to cause massive loss of life, in North Korea, South Korea and possibly Japan if military action initiated.