A defiant North Korea fired two short-range missiles off its east coast today, according to news reports, hours after the UN security council condemned the apparently successful test of a nuclear weapon as powerful as the one that destroyed Hiroshima
I presume they figured that if they were going to get a bollicking for testing a nuke, they might as well go the whole hog. And it gets scarier:
Seoul announced it would immediately join a US-led initiative to intercept ships suspected of carrying nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, component parts or missiles to deliver them. Pyongyang has warned it would consider membership a declaration of war.
Barack Obama spoke at the White House last night, denouncing North Korea's action as "a blatant violation of international law". He said North Korea "will not find security and respect through threats and illegal weapons".
What do you think is NK's strategy in all of this? They were pretty much forgotten about before it's most recent test, and this time it's seems like it's really trying to provoke some form of conflict. A conflict which it would almost certainly lose, at that.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/ma ... siles-test