Special meeting of the United States National Security Council, called by C. Rice, in order to discuss rapidly escalating North Korean situation (reported by CNN recently and carried by Japanese Yomiuri news, in Japanese). Followed (or preceded) shortly by extraordinary emergency session of South Korean National Security Council in Seoul to discuss, and coordinate on the same topic, North Korea expelling UN monitors and inserting additional spent plutonium fuel rods at North Korean nuke plant. Breaking.