Writing in Foreign Affairs, published by the Council on Foreign Relations, Jennifer Lind reminds us why North Korea can pull stunts like this without much fear of anything more than sanctions and words: from, say, military retaliation? Is it the fact that with their current capability, as one expert told Wired's Spencer Ackerman, "they’ll be able to hit us the Wednesday after never"? Or is it something else? Still, what will the United States actually do to respond, beyond a statement of disapproval? What can they do? Perhaps withdraw food aid they ensured in February in exchange for North Korea freezing their nuclear program? They threatened that when this rocket launch was announced, and followed through today - but that didn't prove to be a deterrent. "North Korea is only further isolating itself by engaging in provocative acts, and is wasting its money on weapons and propaganda displays while the North Korean people go hungry." "Despite the failure of its attempted missile launch, North Korea’s provocative action threatens regional security, violates international law and contravenes its own recent commitments," the White House said Thursday night in a prepared statement. But while it's tempting to make North Korea a laughingstock, the White House certainly isn't: The New York Times added that this even the North Koreans, given their international guests, couldn't get away with the kind of lies they're known for their state-run news media reported the failure several hours after it happened. in what was a major embarrassment to the North and its young new leader, the rocket disintegrated moments after the launching, and American and Japanese officials said its remnants fell harmlessly into the sea. ![]() ![]() Yesterday's launch, intended to celebrate the 100th birthday of the country's founder, Kim Il-Sung, went over like a wet candle: North Korea certainly did breaking with their usual lockdown secrecy, they invited a coterie of international journalists to the launch (including NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel, who spoke to Rachel Maddow about it last night in the video below).īut once again, North Korea discovered the difference between being iconoclastic, and merely isolationist, adding to a history of failed ballistic endeavors. Given that it's a country that prioritizes the growth of its military power over even feeding its own people, one might have expected better. (And remember: if your projectiles last longer than four hours, set a delay and destroy them.Defying an international outcry, North Korea yesterday launched a rocket that looked vaguely like a hand-me-down they'd found it in some NASA thrift store, and slapped their flag and markings on the sides. So if you’re not seeing any results, think of a really high number, and then set this value to something even higher than that. OH! I don’t know why, but the Homing Acceleration Magnitude needs to be set to a wicked high number in order for the homing to actually be noticeable. Hopefully this helps out anyone else trying to figure it out. ![]() This isn’t really necessary as those can be set on the Projectile Movement component itself, but I’m planning on using projectiles with different behaviors so I’m just getting myself set up for this now. (You can drag off the pin from the Projectile Movement component we put in the event graph to set this.) I’m also using the BP to specifically set the Is Homing, and Homing Acceleration Magnitude. Okay, so in my projectile’s BeginPlay Event, I add a scene component to my player character (This doesn’t need to be cast to anything else) and use the return value of that to set the Homing Target Component. Basically, in my Projectile BP I’ve added the Projectile Movement component and dragged it into the event graph so I could use it in setting the required information for the homing.
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