" ...in his latest medium-range nuclear missile test."

Globe editors should review their style book. The missile was neither powered by nuclear forces nor did it carry a nuclear weapon. This was simply a missile system test, of the sort that country's around the world frequently conduct. Granted, North Korea could try to put nuclear weapons in their missiles in the future. However its not a trivial task and to date there is no evidence that they've succeeded in doing it.

It goes without saying that having nuclear weapons is no deterrent at all if you don't have a reliable means of delivering them to an enemy. North Korea does have crude nuclear weapons. Building reliable long-range missile systems is an even more daunting engineering task. North Korea will continue to conduct missile tests for the foreseeable future.