And so that has shown the difficulty of reassuring allies. South Korea is so nervous that it has been talking earlier this year about the possibility of getting its own nuclear weapons, not relying on the U.S.'s. And sometimes it's actually easier to deter the adversaries than to reassure the allies. Whereas if they travel into the shallow waters near the Korean Peninsula, they'll be more vulnerable.
However, critics say that, you know, sending the submarines is really more for show because they could fire these missiles from a far greater distance and they'd be safer. move to send a submarine? This is presumably to try to deter adversaries, reassure allies? So that's a little bit of what is happening in the air in the region or might be happening in the air. Evacuate if you were going to have to do it. KELLY: You had to investigate where you would go. And for the first time, I found out that there is actually a shelter, an evacuation center in the building across the street from me. But I will say that in May, there was one which triggered alerts on our cell phones at 6 in the morning and told us to seek shelter or evacuate. These missile tests happen so often that we, in South Korea, are not terribly startled by them. And so we knew they were going to be doing more to perfect it. And they first tested this missile three months ago. KUHN: Well, they tested their newest missile this week, which is theoretically capable of hitting the U.S. I know it's always hard to have any visibility into what North Korea is up to, but what are they up to here? Start with Pyongyang and these missile tests. So nice to see you, Anthony.ĪNTHONY KUHN, BYLINE: Nice to see you in person, Mary Louise. So what is driving the spike in regional tensions? Well, NPR's Anthony Kuhn, who is usually based in Seoul, in South Korea, but who this week is here in Washington, is here in the studio. And on top of that, tensions are increasing between China and U.S.
The U.S., meanwhile, is expected to send a nuclear-armed submarine to the Korean Peninsula - first time in decades that's happened. This week North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew for a longer time than any of its previous ICBMs. Now, there are several things going on at once. We're going to take the next few minutes to talk through rising tensions in East Asia.
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