[TenthAmendmentChampion]

Could they be opening these rods to be sold on the market to Islamo-fascists? Isn't NK short on hard currency, like all communist countries?

[AmericanInTokyo]

Yes. I don't know the technology of the terrorist groups per se to do that, but rogue nations in the middle east w/ scud technology could at least 'try' to have some fun. There is precedent for N. Korea to ship nasty things to the middle east through the Yellow Sea, South China Sea, Straits of Malacca, up through the Indian Ocean and into the port of their wish. N. Korea is hard up for currency, and they would also like to see our allies or ourselves suffer.