North Korea and South Korea are both launching missiles in deadly game of chicken

Outraged over South Korea and the United States conducting military exercises/war games near its border, the hermit nation of North Korea launched 17 test missiles toward South Korea on Wednesday, prompting an unprecedented opposite reaction.

The reaction, a flurry of test missiles pointed at North Korea, came in part because the hermit kingdom’s own test missiles had come a bit too close for comfort.

“North Korea fired at least 17 missiles into the sea on Wednesday, including one that landed less than 60 km (40 miles) off South Korea’s coast, which the South’s President Yoon Suk-yeol described as ‘territorial encroachment,’” according to Reuters.

Click here to read more.