Kim Jong-un’s bellicose stance could signal conflict, or his preference for a President Trump

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspects the test-fire of a submarine-launched strategic cruise missile in North Korea in an image released by state media on Monday. Photograph: KCNA VIA KNS/AFP/Getty Images

North Korea’s leader has increased his displays of military aggression but analysts are split on whether it’s a sign of electoral interference or a war footing

Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies

When a highly militarised dictatorship fires artillery shells in the direction of its neighbour, which it has just denounced as its “greatest enemy”, then tests cruise missiles and underwater nuclear attack drones, it is reasonable to believe that armed conflict could follow.… Read the rest

Gaza fighting spreads into hospitals where there’s ‘no way in and out’

© UNICEF/Abed Zaqout A 3-year-old boy recovers after having his leg amputated following a direct missile strike on his home in Nuseirat city in the central Gaza Strip. (file)

Amid continuing heavy fighting in Gaza on Tuesday morning, including reported attacks on hospitals in the southern city of Khan Younis, UN humanitarians expressed deep concern for patients and others seeking treatment who had “no way in and out”.


n Geneva, Christian Lindmeier, spokesperson for the UN World Health Organization (WHO), confirmed that Al-Kheir Hospital was “one of the two hospitals that is now being raided”, while Nasser Hospital was “now basically besieged around the hospital and has no way in and out”.

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