oh no mountain is too high, no room is in search of the extraordinary we are the specialists over lifestyle, europe, eulu max d w ah, you're watching d. w. news, asia coming up today. how many missiles can north korea test? killing yang has been on a bit of a spree this year and we examined why that may be the case. plus we peer into what's happening in pyongyang and kim jung uns attempt at adding glitz and glamour to the capital. and the contest between china and taiwan plays out on all fronts this time where the rubber meets the road.

ah, i melissa chan, thanks for joining us. north korea fired yet another ballistic missile off its eastern coast this week. that's the 13th test so far this year. that's already more than the tests conducted last year or in 2020. and among those tests included in intercontinental ballistic missile. similar to this one, north korea displayed at a military parade last month. it's clear, kim jung and wants to show off his arsenal, south korea, japan, and the united states responded in strong terms to the latest test. threat from north korea continues to increase because they continue to test because they continue to learn because they continue to adapt their program. it would be foolish not to try to assess that set the thread,

their posing is actually increasing overtime. suckle knox nachos in unit and cook north korea's recent remarkable development of nuclear missile related technologies is not only unacceptable for the security of japan in the region. but north korea slow of actions are not including its repeated launches of ballistic missiles. threatened the peace and security of our country region and the international community in lay. absolutely unacceptable. yawning, the glover, taller committee when you are well, how military is maintaining a full readiness posture by tracking and monitoring related movements of for possible additional launches are, comes on. his mom barnett, a visitor joining us his day on cam of the center for a new american security ado young, i guess 1st question is, why is north korea testing so many more missiles now? well, thanks again for having me on your show, melissa. so, you know, kim don't and has made it clear that he wants to make all these fancy buttons and

missiles that he and he ordered his people to make last year. and so they are basically trying to his country as people are trying to, you know, achieve his goals, his military goals. and so there's a clear domestic motivation for north korea to continue to test them. because a more you test, the better they get at these weapons and so failing missile tests, a failing or is actually not failure, it actually helps a country know how to refine their technology. and so i think that's a key driver now, and i think really, really does not matter what washington does or does not do at this point. i think they're really hard sets on achieving certain milestones when it comes to. there are technological advancements of the nuclear weapons. now, over the last 2 months, we've seen how much impunity a nuclear state has if it decides to be an aggressor. of course,

i'm speaking from berlin. countries feel unable centrally to join ukraine in actual battle because russia is a nuclear state. i wonder about that. can you talk about north korea as a nuclear power and what that really means for the region. so you know, this is a question, a good question that many of us are continuing to debate and try to unpack and analyze and assess, you know, i don't think there are clear cut answers yet. but i think the one hand north korea sees was happening in ukraine, a c z international response with, or the lack of a military response to russia's invasion. and so perhaps this just confirms to concern that he needs to hold on to as nuclear weapons tighter than ever. but on the other hand, if we, you know, these comparisons are not exact or perfect,

but there is a difference between ukraine versus south korean japan being the united states ally and treaty ally. and so, if you know, if a big power like united states has an obligation to defend and protect its allies, then there is no question that the united states would do anything it can and will to defend its allies. and so there is a bit of a difference there in terms of we try to compare and so these are, you know, good questions. but i really think in the grand scheme of things, north korea is probably thinking that it better hang on to weapons, not try to not give it up easily or, or even, even if it's to put a cap on its programs. i think he will try to negotiate for a much higher price chat for even just to press a pause button on his new go up is development. right. and so next week we have a sick you'll taking office as the new president of south korea, a telephone,

little bit about him and whether the missiles have anything to do with the new president. you know, so every one is expected. i'm sure north korea as well dads with a conservative south korean administration. south korea will be tougher than the, than a progressive in ministration. the sense that it, they will demand tit for tat and have a more principle to approach to engagement and not give away freebies. just to try to butter, north korea were to try to satisfy north korea. and so that in that sense, north pier knows fully, well that in his play expecting the, the upcoming unit biden alliance to be tougher towards is and less flexible. in that sense, you know, i would not be surprised if some of these missile activities are, you know, in preparation for north korea, gearing up for hardy hardening its own position towards the unit and bite

administrations. and so, you know, i think in the short and mid term a, we've actually made some escalation of tensions going forward. but we do should we should remember that both by administration and upcoming the incoming administration both made it clear that they are open to diplomacy and dialogue. a young kim thank you so much for joining us. thanks so much. meanwhile, inside north korea well to the best of our ability, since it's so difficult to get a sense of what's happening there. but in the capital of kiln yang akim young on has been intent on constructing high rise apartment buildings. he wants 50000 new units and they look pretty impressive in till you take a closer look. does that apply from high rise buildings? usually a symbol of wealth and status for the rich, except in north korea,

the or anything but. here skyscrapers are getting taller and taller. with the latest even reaching a t stories high. only the least fortunate would find themselves living on the top floors though. and north korean defact assess. as a friend of mine lives on the 28th floor of a 40 story building, he told me that he has never used to live since he was born. because even if there's the lift, it wasn't working on the get them walk or got had. in addition to that, the building self and fail to pump water to flight located so high in the sky. when we, that's made them undesirable. no matter how passionate the public seemed to be on state television. there cheering about the recently built new flats. young young says there are altogether $10000.00 of them daily and k a. so based media says, according to their sources, those flats are not ready to live in would once normally the man, i think it's

a strategy to key for hope, even if it's in vain hope human. if we trust our leader, it can lead to glory together to him. i couldn't be dimmer from 2 young frontal yoga tail while the state officially assigns housing to the people experts say real estie trading has become more common under the leadership of kim jong on giving the rich and the option to choose their homes. so where do they live? have singleton houses for core and loyal classes or into ponton river terry's area . and it's also a place where the state run television anal sir reach and he moved in and everything is provided there wouldn't do. i mean, that was me able to help her and the famous tv anchor was among a group of leads who just moved into a new house in cluster picture from state media. show that leader kim jong or even came to the inauguration on every single building here was low rise in which you

were not upon your bill. ah, well, you've made it till friday. they're raised to the finish to get the weekend started . but before we let you go, here's a racing rivalry between china and taiwan, whose cars go faster after some big talk on social media from a chinese racer. a taiwanese driver responded to the challenge. here is dw zachary li, with the fast and furious man. i want to say you're quite does toy on province even have any fast cause you don't like you? smaller are just video by chinese influence a young early this year, claiming that tie one has no fast cause field. public anger in taiwan. there i go. they that belittled us by saying that we don't have any such cause. it feels like where poor and they're great order. it's not okay to call taiwan a province. we're a country our zeal. ellen. it sounds like you think the best and but the world is

big and new horizons and not broad enough. the video also attracted the attention of tie when he's racing driver. li else, is she in noticed high ones, godfather of racing, loud decided to stand up for taiwan. what is available to nadia? this is nora light nor war between taiwan and china. it is just racing and i'm professionally of collateral yellow. so i threw down the gauntlet girl that i filled out with. my agent in china told me not to do it because relations between taiwan and china, a tense, but yang said not a fast cause our look. of course, we do down to the all to look why while you to the atlanta chinese influence, i took up the challenge you gave yell 2 months to prepare me. i'll spend tens of thousands of dollars and modifying a car. the rivalry mobilized nationalism here in taiwan. and fed antique china sentiment some media even dubbed it, an online war, had to me again very enough amateur racing jarvis here in taiwan. this people have

been watching closely, la revelry, between now and the chinese car raised influencer. and the i now showing this approach to go out breaking speed record is not just for prisoner achievement by nose or in a way about they being phase for taiwan. last month, leo drove 400 meters in just 8.72 seconds braking young's record by more than 2 tenths of a 2nd. i was out the good. there was a general culture. i hope the quarrel between taiwan and china can stop here, often uses. we know who the winner is, so we should stop fighting jojo will goes the library, the record and chinese systems could try to best me would. you'll notice we just have a race together and be friends all when that a good we'll you wouldn't room for the dude a lot we than, than even i portal that seems unlikely since young has not recognized the record. and so this road rivalry between beijing anti pe could soon be headed for another

round. and there you go, taiwan. number one, at least for now. that does it for us. as always, you can check us out on twitter or facebook and we're also on d. w dot com, forward slash asia have a good weekend. i not just another day. so much is happening all at once. we take time to understand. this is the day and in depth look at current news, events analyzed by experts and critical thinkers. this is the day weekdays on d, w a global

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