Under the missile flow: North Korea
The Intelligence from The Economist
The Economist
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🗓️ 19 December 2022
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The country has been slinging missiles skyward at an alarming pace, and with ever-greater technological advancement. We ask why things are heating up, and how the West might at last cool them down. Reforms to Indonesia’s criminal code that sparked mass protests in 2019 are back; restrictions including an extramarital-sex ban look set to pass. And Wales’s booming leech-and-maggot business.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist. |
| 0:06.7 | Today from London I'm your host Jason Palmer. |
| 0:10.2 | Every weekday we provide fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:18.1 | It looks like things are about to get a lot less permissive in Indonesia. |
| 0:22.8 | A raft of reforms swatted down by protests in 2019 now look set to become law banning |
| 0:29.6 | among much else, sex outside of marriage. |
| 0:34.4 | And you might think that the use of leeches and maggots in medicine stopped in the Victorian |
| 0:39.5 | era. |
| 0:40.6 | Quite the opposite, they're still in use to help with repairing blood vessels and wounds, |
| 0:45.4 | and two Welsh companies are doing a roaring trade in them. |
| 0:55.5 | But first, a North Korea's state television news today reporting of a final test toward |
| 1:09.2 | putting a satellite into orbit that could be used for spying. |
| 1:26.0 | It's been a busy weekend for the regime. |
| 1:28.8 | Yesterday it launched two ballistic missiles towards Japan. |
| 1:32.7 | They landed harmlessly in the sea. |
| 1:35.3 | The tests were publicly condemned by South Korea and by Japan's Minister of Defense, who |
| 1:40.7 | cited significantly increasing tensions, rapidly escalating provocations. |
| 1:45.6 | All this bluster is likely to have no effect at all on North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, |
| 2:12.9 | and in fact... |
| 2:32.6 | Andrew Nox is our sole bureau chief,인�ώς평사관speaking. |
| 2:41.3 | Well, let's go back and get an overview of what's been going on this year. |
| 2:45.4 | You say it's become more than routine. |
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