AFTER its successful launching of inter-mediate range Musudan missiles last Tuesday, on Wednesday experts in Japan, South Korea and the United States now consider North Korean missiles a “real and serious threat.”

The Korean War erupted 66 years ago. Technically, the Korean Peninsula is still in a state of war between the South, aided by the US and allies like Philippines, and the North, aided by allies like China, because the 1950-53 Korean War was stopped not by a peace treaty but only a ceasefire or an armistice.

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