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Update 4: S.KOREA MILITARY IS RAISING ALERT AFTER N.KOREA MISSILE: YONHAP
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Update 3: According to Richard Haass, president of the CFR, the "N. Korea missile test over Japan will stimulate missile defense buildup as well as intensify consideration of preventive military action"
Authored by Pepe Escobar via Asia Times,
While the US-backed 'Hunger Games' in South Korea plow on, a 'new strategy' for Afghanistan is really all about business. But China is already there...
There are more parallels between an unfinished 1950s war in Northeast Asia and an ongoing 16-year-old war in the crossroads between Central and South Asia than meet the eye.
Let’s start with North Korea.
Once again the US/South Korea Hunger Games plow on. It didn’t have to be this way.
With the VIX surging, and then quickly getting pummeled on two occasions in the past three weeks, dizzy traders could be forgiven to assume that any latent "risk off" threat, whether from North Korea or the US political front, has been taken off the table.
Kim Jong Un is once again showing the US exactly how disinterested he is in negotiating any settlement - particularly one that ultimately forces North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons: To wit, Kim ordered more rockets and warheads during a televised visit to a local munitions factory just hours after Secretary of Defense James Mattis praised Kim’s “restraint” for not having launched any new missile strikes since the latest round of UN sanctions took effect on Aug. 5. Mattis also reiterated that the Trump administration would be open to talks.
Yesterday, the Trump administration slapped a new round of sanctions on Chinese and Russian entities accused of aiding the North Korean nuclear program.