Fireworks

Not that I paid much attention, but North Korea did in fact live up to expectations that it would test missiles on the 4th of July.  So often, our media get excited about the testing of anti-ship missiles which probably aren’t nuclear capable and probably couldn’t do much damage to ground targets in Japan or South Korea.  This time, however, the North fired off seven short-range missiles.  They were SCUD-C’s or Nodong’s, which could do serious damage to a South Korean city.

More interesting to me was the failure of a rumored Taepodong ICBM test did not materialize.  In response to this latest flagrant violation of three U.N. Security Council Resolutions, the United Nations issued a devastating rebuke in response.  How cute.