North Korea launched two missiles on Thursday. That was a response to the US and South Korea firing their own missiles at mock targets in waters not far from North Korea’s coastline — and an American aircraft carrier sailing close to the Korean peninsula, a very rare deployment. The World’s Patrick Winn has been following these developments. He joins us from Tokyo.
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