Krauthammer: N. Korea Ballistic Missile Test ‘Seems To Be a Deliberate Provocation’

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KRAUTHAMMER: "It seems to be a deliberate provocation by the leadership in Pyongyang, but it is not, as John Roberts pointed out, the kind of ICBM that would threaten us. It is still liquid fueled, so it is not advanced in its technology. It seems to me to be a deliberate provocation with us at the Security Council, or secretary of state, saying we are near, at least there is a threat of a major, major conflict here, trying to challenge the trump Administration saying, well, show us what you've got. But the administration seems to be saying is, we've got to China. Well, we don't see anything from China. We just heard that the Chinese are in contact with the North Koreans to try to put pressure on them not to test. Well, dated test. They did test. I think we're going to see whether the Chinese action is an illusion or whether trump was taken in with the meeting by XI, the president of China, or whether this is a process where they've agreed to do things over time. But we haven't seen anything yet, and this is a way for the North Koreans to try to, at least for the merrily, to call the -- preliminary preliminarily, to call the left."