NORKs threatening more missile launches

Yesterday the United Nations Security Council, in an emergency secret session, met to discuss the North Korean missile crisis.

Amazingly, North Korea remains undeterred. Shocking!

From AP:

The Bush administration today dismissed North Korea's threat to test-fire more missiles and pressed for international efforts to get the secretive communist regime to "cease and desist" such actions.

"We're certainly not going to overreact ... to these wild statements out of Pyongyang and North Korea," said Undersecretary R. Nicholas Burns. "We've seen them before."

The North Korean Foreign Ministry, in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, insisted that the communist state had the right to missile tests and argued the weapons were needed for defense.

Not true on the last one. When thinking of Kim Jong-Il and missiles, also think about Argentina's Leopoldo Galtieri and the Falkland Islands.

Actually, maybe it is true. This will allow Kim to be defended--from his own people.

For a while.

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