May 09, 2019

North Korea Pushes Trump's Boundaries With Latest Missile Tests

Featuring: Eric Brewer

Source: Bloomberg

Journalists: Youkyung Lee, Glen Carey

North Korea is once again pressing the boundaries of what it can get away with, returning to missile tests this week in violation of international sanctions championed by U.S. President Donald Trump. So far, the reaction has been muted.

Trump dismissed Kim Jong Un’s move to launch two short-range missiles on Thursday, six days after the North Korean leader supervised a military exercise in which he fired off several projectiles, including what non-proliferation experts believed was another short-range ballistic missile.

“They’re smaller missiles,” Trump told reporters on Thursday. “Nobody’s happy about it.” The Pentagon confirmed late Thursday that North Korea tested “multiple ballistic missiles,” a description affirmed by Japan’s defense ministry Friday.

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  • Eric Brewer

    Deputy Director of the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) and Senior Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

    Eric Brewer is Deputy Director of the Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) and a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He was perviously the ...