News Comment #3 and Good Lede:
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/09/north-korea-tech/538959/
I thought it was a good lead because it immediately raised my interest. For a long time everyone says” yes they threat but they can’t deliver” but now this article wants to change that with a question and an immediate answer, when did they get good at this?… well they been systematically underrated for years. just the lead does a couple things right in an instant: it has timeliness for the crazy times we live in, impact for the possible number of people that could be killed in a nuclear war, conflict because this all comes down to a political debate.
This article basically does an exposition of what’s happening in North Korea right now, they are making missile tests and every day their success rate goes up, considering how poorly equipped they were a couple years ago, to now jump into a 67% success rate of their launches in this year, this should raise at least some alarms.
In North Korea they are having an increase in their military infrastructure and are making a part of they every day that the politics, military and scientists go hand by hand.
Now, how do we react to this? Not panic, but definitely some awareness is needed. This reminds me of the story with the hare and the tortoise America is this giant machine that goes a thousand miles per hour, and we see North Korea just getting close, such a small threat, no one listens at first, but if we give them enough time and space, they might do as the tortoise and win the race.
It’s moments like this one in history when in a couple years we might look back and say : wow we should have done things differently. Now if that differently refers to a possible world war three then it’s a whole different scenario. This is a moment for the international community to come together and actually find solutions; because this might be a problem between two nations but nothing ever just stays that way, this might expand.