North Korea’s provocations show no sign of ending. The country has launched more missiles in just the last two months than it did throughout the tenures of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and has rolled out a range of new tactical, long-range and hypersonic capabilities that can theoretically strike Seoul, Tokyo or Los Angeles with nuclear warheads.

One of these missiles, a Soviet-inspired SA-5 surface-to-air missile, traveled south of the Northern Limit Line (NLL) on Nov. 2, the first time DPRK has ever fired a missile south of the inter-Korean maritime border. North Korea has