They billow through the sky, pulling the world's attention upwards and towards the sometimes all-too-ominous tempest of international politics. Yet again, North Korea has sent one of its so-called 'messengers' skyward, this time a long-range ballistic missile vaulting forth from the vivacious heart of Pyongyang. The South Korean military has placed the bold voyage at about 1,000 kilometers.
As the tides ebb and flow, they swallow the remnants of mankind's fiery overtures. And indeed, the Japanese Coast Guard believes the waters west of Okushiri Island in the picturesque Hokkaido region became the final hush point for this missiles fiery fissure. Tracing the trajectory, the scholars of the sea estimate that the missile has indeed kissed goodbye to its motherland and plunged into the cold embrace of the ocean.
