haven t seen. even when kim jong-un was launching missiles and tensions were reaching near crisis level back in 2017, he launched 23 missiles throughout the entire year. he has already surpassed that considerably in in terms of the number of tests this year and fired seven missiles just in the last two weeks. this is more than he has done since he came to power in 2011. and it raises a question, because north korea is not using these for propaganda. you are not seeing images on north korean state media like we normally would see, 24 years after the launch. that that says to me and analysts i m speaking with, these launches are for scientific knowledge and to prove a point, some believe, that he wants those to know his arsenal is there, capable. and even at a time of global conflict, he has weapons that he feels can, you know, stand on their own. obviously, some people think this is all a cry for attention. i think politics might have less to do with it in that there is a list
security which means putin for the prices of your previously foreign secretary, how would you be dealing with the situation that is going on in russia at the moment if you were in power? i don t think there s very much that we in britain can do about the situation other than prepare ourselves for what we have to prepare ourselves for i think, i suspect, quite a long period of instability within russia, but probably more importantly actually in our immediate and, just what the effect is going to be on ukraine, and certainly we hope that this will this instability will undermine russian confidence in ukraine, will give the ukrainians an opportunity at the stage, was the russians are distracted by this and hopefully will mean an end to the war soon, and ukrainians being able to win back their territory, so we can have the piece we need. doesn t the west need to be