[D-fendr]

"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy."

Biden next said that during this crisis Obama would look like a fool, but hang in there.

[AmericanInTokyo]

A loose cannon on the deck kind of prediction here, but I would imagine within a few days from now, some leading LDP Party member (Japanese parliament) is going to get sauced in the evening after a long days work, at a ryotei (traditional Japanese eating establishmment with kimono-ed waitresses; very pricy), and come outside with the TV cameras rolling and say something VERY straight and frank and insulting about North Koreans, probably in reference to eating dog or something along that line. This is going to incense Pyongyang even more. Japanese politicians, under pressure and angry about something, with a few hits of the sake bottle, can come up with just about anything for the press. It is a wonder that this has not happened yet, but it probably will before the week is out.