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The USA highly condemns the leader's decision and internationally encouraged nations to order sanctions against them.

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The conflict is located in Asia, specifically, North Korea

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Ever since the Korean War ended in 1953, Korea was split into two regions with different ideologies. While the South promotes individuality, capitalism and Western's ideas. The North (DPRK, Democratic People's Republic of Korea) rather condemns it, and built communism. Sver time, the communism government changed to a totalitarian regime under the Kim's descendent. Now, under the poor leadership of Kim Jong Un, the country faces extreme poverty. Yet he's investing the national budget into warfare, specifically, nuclear weapons, and disregarding the social welfare.

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https://www.cfr.org/interactives/global-conflict-tracker#!/conflict/north-korea-crisis

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DPRK has been developing more and more advanced nuclear weapons, in which offended the laws that were set by the UN Security Council. This exacerbated the country's poverty since the many countries world wide created a sanction against DPRK. Preventing the country to be able to receive aids and supplies. Not only that, the advancement of nuclear weapons will bring devastation in the future once the bomb(s) is finally being dropped. Which it/they could potentially engulf the entire globe with radiation, and leaving the world with intangible destructions.

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Since North Korea is already globally disconnected, by launching missiles, it could defend itself from almost everyone. Since it practically has no ally (well, maybe China) and doesn't join in any global organization.
Also, it creates a facade that it's a grand and powerful countries with the reality of thousands in poverty and lack of necessities.

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The totalitarian, Kim Jong Un ordered these actions

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It began with the very first missile launch in October, 2006