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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by kbenson on Monday August 28, 2017 @05:48PM (#15120358)
I actually had the same thought. What if North Korea had a mishap and wasn't intending to cause an incident (or at least, not one quite this extreme)? Would they feel like they could admit it was an accident, or would they play it off as intentional even if it wasn't?
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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by JKCalhoun on Monday August 28, 2017 @06:10PM (#15120514)
Maybe it does not in fact matter what they say.
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Re:North Korea Missile Appears to Have Flown Over Japan, Abe... by kbenson on Monday August 28, 2017 @06:20PM (#15120588)
Given that at least one nuclear strike was closely averted because of better information being available later during a misclassification of a launch of research rocket1], I think it definitely can matter.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_close_calls#19...

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