北 미사일.. #1

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about the missile "madness"

First of all: the f.. missile is still in its hole!

But of course - no wonder - KJ Kim's trip to P.Y. is cancelled as one of the first(foreseeable) results of the latest developments.

Meanwhile - of course it was also pedictable - the S.K. govt is threatening the DPRK with the stop of("additional") economic and humanitarian help(Yonhap, Korea Times).

And the US administration's position: "All options are still on the table", a.k.a. everything can be happen, incl. a military option(just watch CNN's stuff쟯n the end of my contribution..).

And finally, of course also foreseeable: the DPRK is offering the US administration bilateral negotiations to solve the "missile problem"(on the other side the DPRK said that it has all rights to launch a satellite..).

IHT published in the last two days following articles:

North Korea's very bad idea (NYT)

South Korea's ex-leader won't visit North

U.S. Readies System For Missile Detection? (Washington Post)
Use Against N. Korean Launch Discounted

The U.S. military yesterday moved ships into position off the coast of North Korea to detect the launch of any long-range ballistic missiles and prepared its new, unproven missile-interception system to attempt a response if necessary.

Please read the full article here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062001446.html

The latest comment published y'day in Asia Times(HK/China) you can read here:

Pyongyang will shoot itself in the foot(harrharr, finally a kind of surprising..)

Before y'day the same magazine published following analysis:

There's method in the missile madness

..and some backgrounds about the DPRK's missile development program and export:

Pyongyang's global reach

And finally here you can watch the latest contribution in CNN Intl. TV program(6.21):

North Korea's plan to launch a long-range missile prompts U.S. concern

http://edition.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/world/2006/06/20/starr.north.korea.missle.launch.dod

And last but not least the S.K. "left-liberal" daily Hangyeore wrote this y'day: