Politics

Two days after the latest provocative missile test by North Korea, in which it launched a "new type" of ballistic missile, one which experts warned had a substantially longer range than any existing rocket North Korea had fired, on Monday morning North Korea announced that it had successfully conducted a mid-to-long range missile test on Sunday supervised by leader Kim Jong Un which was aimed at verifying the capability to carry a "large scale heavy nuclear warhead."

A clearly frustrated Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) said Sunday that there are "probably more" connections between Hillary Clinton and Russia than there are between Moscow and President Trump.

During an interview with John Catsimatidis that aired Sunday on New York's AM 970, The Hill reports that the lawmaker said:

"I am not aware of any evidence whatsoever of any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia or between Russia and the Trump campaign,"

 

At the start of February, a shocking poll revealed that Germany's Social Democrat, or SPD, party - under the new leadership of former Europarliament head Martin Schulz - had managed to overtake Angela Merkel's dominant CDU ahead of Germany's federal elections in the fall of 2017.  However, just three months later, "Schulz' fairytale turned into a nightmare for Germany’s SPD" as the party scored its worst ever result in today's election in Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia (or NRW).

After North Korea provoked both its neighbors and the US when on Sunday morning it fired off yet another ballistic missile from Kusong near the border with China  - one which this time did not explode upon launch  - just days after the election of a new South Korean president who ironically advocates more engagement with Pyongyang, experts said the missile appeared to be a new type of ballistic missile, and had a far greater range than any other weapon North Korea has successfully launched.

Authored by Paul Criag Roberts,

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