What We're Watching: Kim goes hypersonic, confident Europeans, Japan's new safe hands

What We're Watching: Kim goes hypersonic, confident Europeans, Japan's new safe hands September 29, 2021 Carlos Santamaria and Alex Kliment Kim Jong Un breaks the sound barrier: North Korea has announced the successful test of a “strategic weapon” that travels five times faster than the speed of sound. The Hwasong-8 missile, which is believed to be nuclear-capable, is a hypersonic weapon which is much harder for missile defense systems to track than conventional ballistic missiles. The US, China, Russia, and India are the only other countries known to be working with this highly sophisticated technology. And although experts aren’t quite…