It was a strategic launch that will rattle Japan and the US to either diplomacy or the brink. Hokkaido doesn't have any US bases or presence up there, but it has over 4 million people. Firing it over Hokkaido proved the US doesn't have Japan fully covered and some areas of it are indeed weak targets. Also they fired it out of Pyongyang airport area, right out of populated areas, which tells the US they would have to carpet bomb the country to get all the ICBM's. Abe sounds nervous, and so he should be. Abe and Trump probably know now that they would have to level NK border to border, and they can't possible do that in one action. Should war break out, Japan,Sk perhaps Guam and Hawaii will get hit, that is now 100% certain.
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