Furious at the ICBM test earlier in the day by North Korea, the US and South Korea responded with a flurry of test fires of their own missiles, which they described as a “show of force” showing America’s capability to hit targets across North Korea in all weather conditions.
Both China and Russia have urged North Korea and the US to both embrace a de-escalation plan that would see North Korea suspend missile tests in return for a moratorium on large US military exercises near North Korea. All signs are that this is a variation on past proposals already spurned by the US.
South Korea had previously been seen to be behind such plans, but gave no such signs today, instead joining in the US “show of force,” while North Korea bragged about its successful ICBM test and insisted that they will have more “gift packages of missile tests” to come.
This sort of continued escalation on both sides only adds to concerns, repeatedly expressed by Russia and China, that the situation could rapidly spiral out of control, and lead to a massive war on the Korean Peninsula in very short order.
http://www.wjperryproject.org/notes-from-the-brink/top-former-us-officials-urge-president-trump-to-begin-talks-with-north-korea
any kind of nuclear exchange in the world, no matter how small, could well be catastrophic to the world climate….
We have no idea how little it would take to put enough soot and particulate matter into the stratosphere to darken the skies in the northern hemishpere and affect world agriculture and growing seasons, etc etc
FYI
The Effect of Nuclear War on Climate By Jeffrey Masters, Ph.D. — Director of Meteorology, Weather Underground, Inc.
https://www.wunderground.com/resources/climate/nuke.asp
AND
http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/RobockToonSAD.pdf
…Even a “small” nuclear war between India and Pakistan, with each country detonating 50 Hiroshima-size atom bombs only about 0.03 percent of the global nuclear arsenals explosive power as air bursts in urban areas, could produce so much smoke that temperatures would fall below those of the Little Ice Age of the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, shortening the growing season around the world and threatening the global food supply…