North Korea, also known as the Hermit Kingdom is regarded as one of the most repressive places on earth has recently been testing new long range nuclear missiles and threatening to use them. Their main target with these new missiles such as the Taepodong 2 are South Korea, Japan, and The United States. Al Jazeera says “It “represents a level of performance never before seen from a North Korean missile”, aerospace engineering specialist John Schilling wrote on the respected 38 North website.” With these new missile testings have made an already tense region tenser. This comes after the assassination of half brother Kim Jong Un in Malaysia by being poisoned by nerve agents. These new nuclear missiles now being able to reach Japan and the USA, it is completely changing the stakes to a new level.  “It “represents a level of performance never before seen from a North Korean missile”, aerospace engineering specialist John Schilling wrote on the respected 38 North website.” While The North is working on the ballistic missiles, America has decided to deploy the THAAD missile system to South Korea. THAAD stands for Terminal High Altitude Area Defense is a missile defense system for shooting down ballistic missiles. This was much resistance from China. Overall the situation in Korea is tense and hard to predict the future at this point. http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-street-art-work-of-kim-jong-un-riding-a-missile-this-usa-cant-happen-70677963.html