North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile toward the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said, two months after the North claimed to have tested engines for a new harder-to-detect missile capable of striking distant U.S. targets in the region.
The launch was the North’s first this year. Experts say North Korea could ramp up its provocative missile tests as a way to influence the results of South Korea’s parliamentary elections in April and the U.S. presidential election in November.
There was a lot more rhetoric against North Korea in the 00s until they confirmed having a nuke.
Care to elaborate?
The news at the time talked a lot about hostile nations which included “the axis of evil” that originally comprised of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea for whatever reason. More and more alarms were ringing about how they were going to get a nuke and how much of a problem they are, then they got a nuke and it’s been mostly silence except for the occasional news piece like this one. At the time it seemed like the US was ready to go to war with several countries in the name of fighting “terror”.
Exactly.