@David, thanks for your advice, I just sent the editors of NRC an email, where I obviously kept a copy of (for future publication) if they also choose to ignore me…

This whole navy blabla is just a way for many in the West and for the Chinese military apparatus to pump up expenditures. Why else do you think the US always needs enemies somewhere. Without a perceived threat why would tax payers spend tons of money on military hardware? So some threats might be reasonable but many are made up. Some actually become self fulfilling prophecies. North Korea is a nice point where all the speculation and BS instead of finding a proper way to dismantle the Kim apparatus resulted in a midget state that is arming itself at the expense of its own people and you bet that many a bottle of Champagne must have been emptied when they launched their missile.

Yet another round of missile shield expenses against the evil Koreans for the lobbyists and arms industries to work on. I expect a journalist to go beyond the obvious and explain the workings of the Chinese weapons industries, the lobbyist and think tanks that fuel the expenses and also tell me how it has grown. In other words do a hell of a lot more research but lets face it, this is a blog entry so if she would write about the hot pot restaurant she had dinner then that is fine.