Your being too kind to Kim Jong-Il by calling him insane.
You're right, GS.
Well, it looks like these 4 missiles aren't the biggie - so are these the warning shots across the bow for something else coming from the looney farm? Maybe spit wads?
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50917
NUCLEAR WAR-FEAR
Missiles launched from North Korea
Reports indicate 4 rockets fired, land in Sea of Japan
Posted: July 4, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
North Korea launched at least two and possibly as man as four missiles from its territory today, landing harmlessly in the Sea of Japan.
U.S. officials at the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) confirm the detection launches of land-to-air missiles, not ballistic missiles which would be a greater threat to the United States.
The missiles were launched from a site other than the one intelligence officials have watched for weeks ahead of a possible long-range weapons test, a senior State Department official told CNN.
"This is a clear escalation by a belligerent state which is progressing toward ... a delivery vehicle," said Mike Norman, a talk-show host on the BizRadio Network. "It is time we finish this. We take their missiles on the launch platform, take 'em out, send a clear unequivocal message."
President Bush has warned the communist state it would face further isolation if it violates agreements by launching a rocket capable of reaching the American continent.
"The North Koreans have made agreements with us in the past, and we expect them to keep their agreements," Bush said last month at the European Union summit.
The incident comes as America celebrated its 230th birthday with its own Independence Day launch of space shuttle Discovery from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
"What a day to rattle our cage," said Fox News host David Asman.
More to come ...
Why is it that I find myself alone in thinking that K.J.Il ain't what a lot of folks on here think him to be???That his "madness" has more of a method to it than meets the eye???If I were a bigwig at the Chinese C.P ,North Korea would be my ideal dirty harry.No responsibility,no trail left behind.It would pressurise Uncle Sam & his cohorts while enabling China to remain respectable.These missile tests don't mean anything unless you look for answers in Beijing.