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North Korea Missile Threat: Old problems, new solutions?

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Early Tuesday morning, North Korean state media announced that the secretive Communist country had for the very first time successfully test-launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, which experts call a "game changer” as it could potentially strike the United States mainland. There has been a chorus of condemnation, but since everything else seems to have failed is it time for a totally new approach to this decades-old problem?

Added on the 04/07/2017 19:21:53 - Copyright : France 24 EN

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