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Wallerstein adds evidence to my feeling that the North Korean missile tests were no big deal, in that not only China, who, as I am now arguing, want a strong North Korea, but also North Korea's purported arch-enemy South Korea are far more concerned by Japanese sabre-rattling than they are by North Korean, as well they might be: Japan mobilised is far more dangerous than North Korea, in that it has the capacity to terrorise the region once again if it ever remilitarises, whereas North Korea only has the capacity to do what it is doing now, namely to keep itself defensible by devoting its entire economy to the military function. Of course, since Japan's neighbours/potential victims are either nuclear-armed (Russia, China, North Korea) or, in the cases of South Korea and Formosa, are under the protection of the nuclear-armed US and, failing that, probably under the protection against Japan of North Korea and China respectively, not to mention probably capable of developing their own nukes if they needed them — well, there's not too much to be worried about on that front either, IMO.
Wallerstein also points out that India is testing long-range missiles and nobody's made a fuss about that.