This D.P.R.K.-missile-hitting-Japan-by-accident
scenario hadn't occurred to me.
It is impossible to know if the individuals leading North Korea’s nuclear weapons program have the same degree of confidence in their technology and their personnel. But it is not hard to believe they feel the same urgent need to prove North Korea has a useable nuclear weapon, especially in the face of
continuing US doubts. China’s expansive land mass allowed its leaders to conduct their test in a way that only put their own people at risk. But tiny North Korea must send its nuclear-armed missile out into the Pacific Ocean on a trajectory that would fly over Japan. If a failed North Korean test were to impact Japan it could precipitate a
large-scale war in North-East Asia that could kill a million people on the first day.
Sounds like fun, or at least one hell of an opportunity for
schadenfreude, doesn't it?
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