N. Korea's missile launch over Japan could become new normal

North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile over Japanese territory Tuesday may become the new standard for the North's shows of force, according to defense and diplomacy experts in Japan and abroad.The apparent lack of an attempt by either Japan or the United States to shoot down the missile will likely embolden Pyongyang to carry out further tests in the same vein, they say.As North Korea gets ever closer to its ambition of developing nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles, and if the United States softens its stance to defuse the crisis, Japan may find itself diplomatically i…READ FULL ARTICLE