Washington has been placed in a delicate position with the election of Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr., who was among those who fled to Hawaii in 1989 after the ‘People Power Revolution’ ousted his father from power. 

Biden is ‘deeply concerned’ over possibility of North Korea lighting off a seventh nuclear test.

However dark, the storm clouds over Free China and the Korean peninsula are not expected to burst into armed conflict.

The science minister, Lee Jong-ho, called it ‘a monumental moment not just in South Korea’s science technology history but for South Korea’s history as well.’

A successful launch would mark a milestone in the ability of South Korean scientists and engineers to develop a missile program free of American or other foreign assistance.

DONALD KIRK