Editor's Note: Understandably, our Chief Investment Strategist is fielding Members' questions about what the increasingly volatile, downright scary situation on the Korean Peninsula means for their hard-earned cash. Here's what you need to know heading into this short holiday week...
North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un did the unthinkable and launched a missile over Japan last week.
Tens of thousands of cell phones went off at once at 6:02 a.m. last Monday, when that nation's government alerted citizens to the launch.
NHK - the nation's largest public broadcasting network - simultaneously flashed a "black screen" warning that the missile was approaching Japan and that everyone in its flight path should immediately take cover.
Air raid sirens blared in Sapporo on Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island.
Trains stopped.
People took cover.
Fourteen minutes later, things returned to "normal" when the missile fell into the Pacific.
But, what exactly does that mean... "normal?"
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