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Comment by quuquuquu | Hacker News Reader

Not fun to wake up to a missile flying over my house here in Hokkaido XD

I don't know how this going to end, but it feels weird to be in the crosshairs as collateral damage in a proxy war.

Completely offtopic, but where in Hokkaido? I was in Sapporo back about 15 years ago. Most people I've met have only been to Honshu.

Sapporo squad!!! So cool to hear it. I spent all summer biking around the country side, really unique people and perspectives around here.

Have been interested in Hokkaido ever since it was a level in Splinter Cell haha.

It's cheap living here, but I guess I chose the wrong moment to be airbnb'ing in what is otherwise an extremely peaceful region :)

Japan is not really collateral. North Korea hates Japan apart from the US. In fact it's really the US that's collateral.

Neither is true. The DPRK isn't trying to pursue a war against its enemies in a military sense. They're trying to extort money from the world community as a price for peace.

True. It's all about extortion.

North Korea has limited directional options if they want a realistic missle test.

Having one overfly Japan may just be the least politically bad option they have.

Other paths would be toward China, Russia, Taiwan, Phillipines, etc.

Oh, well, yeah, I mean the US still isn't quite collateral though...

huh... I am feeling uninformed. Could you enlighten me why this is the case?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule

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