North Korea advances hidden into the fog

Another country that does not rest nor let rest: The multiple launch of tuesday 14th comes a day before the South holds parliamentary elections, and at a time when the world’s attention has been largely focussed on the Covid-19 pandemic, which Pyongyang insists it has so far escaped.

Taking advantage of the pandemic of Covid-19, North Korea has been carrying out tests of new advanced multiple launch rocket systems; but in this case it is suspected that has tested a new type of surface-to-ship cruise missile designed to hit “any enemy Warship”.

This launch takes place just when the pandemy of Covid-19 is hitting the aircraft carriers USS Carl Vinson, USS Ronald Reagan and other US Navy ships, and a day before the 108th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, grandfather of the current leader Kim Jong Un.

The missiles flew some 200 kilometres over the Sea of Japan, which analysts said was an improvement on a 2015 test that flew only 100 kilometres. 

¿What if all the wolves decide to attack now?

With a forced aircraft carrier in port and nuclear missile crews hit by Covid-19, the United States are now facing the possibility of a large-scale opportunistic attack, taking advantage of the drop in defenses on all fronts: According to Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons expert at the Federation of American Scientists, all US nuclear facilities except one have been affected by the virus.

Fortunately, the Pentagon has been completely proactive in establishing a "bubble" system in early March, creating two separate operational teams for submarines and nuclear missile silos. However, it is worth considering to what extent these measures should have been adopted previously, considering that on Thursday 9 the Newsweek magazine published a map showing that cases of coronavirus had appeared in 150 military bases.

In addition to what was reported by Newsweek, it is known that four aircraft carriers have also been reached, among which the aircraft carrier USS Roosevelt stands out, forced to dock in Guam for a long period due to an outbreak that has affected 416 of the 4.800 on board . The other three aircraft carriers affected have been USS Reagan, docked in Japan, and USSs Vinson and Nimitz, both under maintenance in Washington state.

Perhaps the United States have done the big mistake in being so transparent, because nature shows us time after time that wolves get emboldened as more weakness they perceive in their prey. ¿Will China take advantage to expand its military presence further into the Pacific? ¿Will Russia fail to take advantage of this golden opportunity to strengthen its military presence in the Arctic? Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, North Korea... ¿Will all of them fail to seize this opportunity to deliver the great blow to their eternal and hated enemies? ¿Or perhaps are all of them just waiting for the best moment to deliver the great blow, when the United States will show its maximum level of weakness? I prefer not imagine it. In that case, May God mercy all of us. Good afternoon, and good luck.