ZERO TOLERANCE FOR N.KOREAN MISSILE TESTING/LAUNCH POLICY
We must announce that any N.K. missile launch during this time, even if for testing, will be considered an attack upon the United States. Kim Jong il must be put in his corner.
My information from Japan sources today were that the N.Koreans hurredly conducted dry land/above land missile engine firing tests on their northwest coast, in full view of our intel satellites. This occured in the very opening period of January , just a little over a month ago. They suddenly stopped the tests in midstream. The theories are a) they did this purposely knowing they were on 'candid camera' to send a message to the US for negotiating strength, or b) the did the tests and there was an actual failure midstream that forced them to abandon actual rocket engine ignition. Multiple/recent statements by the US administration with respect to N. Korean missile technology shows they are very concerned there will be a Taepodong-2 launch, probably transversing the Japanese archipelago.
I personally think the President's national security team want to very publicly set the stage in the world's mindset that there is a seriously impending missile/nuke combined problem, in advance of announcing a Cuban Missile Crisis type policy forbidding any missile launches (which makes sense) by North Korea directed anywhere in East Asia and the Pacific.