And what would you have Bush do? Korea has been isolated by most
nations of the world since the 1950's. They are cut off economically
by most nations (except China)and live in the stone age.

--- In Alexandra_Steele_ Evening_Edition@ yahoogroups. com, "Joseph"
<jamsolo20032000@ ...> wrote:
>
> THIS MAY BE OFF TOPIC TO ALEXANDRA STEELE BUT WE CAN'T IGNORE THIS
> TIME. NORTH KOREA MAY NOT LET US SEE ALEXANDRA STEELE AGAIN IF WE
GET
> HIT BY NUCLEAR WEAPONS.
>
> NORTH KOREA HAS BEEN LAUNCHING MISSLES. THEY MIGHT START A NUCLEAR
> WAR AGAINST THE UNITED STATES & PRESIDENT BUSH DOESN'T SEEM TO CARE
>
> http://www.cbsnews. com/stories/ 2006/07/05/ world/main177445 8.shtml
>
> North Korea: Missile Tests Our Right
>
> TOKYO, July 5, 2006
> ------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- -
> ----------
> (CBS/AP) A North Korean foreign ministry official defended North
> Korea's missile tests as a matter of national sovereignty, a
Japanese
> TV report aired in South Korea said. Meanwhile, the U.S.
ambassador
> to Japan says the United States reserves right to defend itself
and
> its allies.
>
> The Japanese TBS network, broadcast by South Korea's YTN, showed
Ri
> Pyong Dok, a researcher on Japanese affairs at the North's Foreign
> Ministry, saying no one can interfere in Pyongyang's missile
program.
>
> "The missile launch is an issue that is entirely within our
> sovereignty. No one has the right to dispute about it,'' he
said. "On
> the missile launch, we are not bound by any agreement.''
>
> The report did not name the official or provide further details.
>
> The confirmation would be the first by the North, which is
believed
> to have launched at least six missiles, including a long-range
> Taepodong 2, early Wednesday morning.
>
> About 35 seconds after the launch, officials say the ICBM either
> failed outright or was aborted by plan, reports CBS News
> correspondent Wyatt Andrews. It did not reach deep space and posed
no
> danger to Japan or the U.S.
>
> The North also tested five smaller missiles in an exercise the
White
> House called "provocative" but not an immediate threat.
>
> In Japan, the U.S. ambassador said the United States reserves
right
> to defend itself and its allies
> .
> Ambassador Thomas Schieffer said he hopes the dispute over the six
> missile shots will be resolved diplomatically, but also told
> reporters ``we are prepared to take measures to protect the U.S.,
our
> allies and our friends.''
>
> The world also needs to speak with "one voice'' in response to the
> missile tests, Schieffer added.
>
> "We are seeking an international community response, not just from
> the U.S. or Japan or the nations in the six-party process,'' he
> said. "We believe the entire international community has a stake
in
> this.''
>
> The isolated communist nation carried out the tests as the U.S.
> celebrated the Fourth of July and launched the space shuttle.
>
> Joseph Cirincione, an arms expert at the Center for American
> Progress, tells CBS' Dan Raviv that there's a reason this happened
on
> the Fourth of July.
>
> "They know this is our national holiday. They want to remind us
that
> they're still there."
>
> None of the missiles made it as far as Japan, all crashing into
the
> Sea of Japan separating the island from the Korean Peninsula,
> officials said.
>
> The U.S. administration made it clear that its response would not
> involve military action as President Bush consulted with National
> Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice
> and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. The State Department
said
> Rice conferred with her counterparts from China, Japan, South
Korea
> and Russia.
>
> "It wasn't that he (the president) was surprised because we've
seen
> this coming for a while," Hadley said. "I think his instinct is
that
> this just shows the defiance of the international community by
North
> Korea."
>
> "We do consider it provocative behavior," Hadley said.
>
> Later the White House issued a statement condemning North
> Korea's "unwillingness to heed calls for restraint from the
> international community" and accusing North Korea of trying
> to "intimidate other states."
>
> The U.N. Security Council called an emergency meeting for
Wednesday
> morning.
>
> Tuesday night U.S. Ambassador John Bolton was in urgent
consultations
> with Security Council members and on a conference call with the
> United Kingdom and France — the "P3" — in order to gather
information
> to determine next steps, reports CBS News Foreign Affairs Analyst
> Pamela Falk.
>
> "The challenge for U.S. negotiators will be to determine how to
both
> protect the American public and to get the North Koreans back to
the
> 6-party talks in light of the dangerous provocation that was
caused
> by the July 4th launch of missiles," said Falk. "The next step is
> likely to be diplomacy and all hands on deck at the U.N. Security
> Council on Wednesday morning, if not before."
>
> "The reason that the launch is so threatening is because of North
> Korea's nuclear capability and because they pulled out of the Non
> Proliferation Treaty three years ago and, as a result, there is no
> confirmation of what they are up to," added Falk.
>
> Japan lodged a protest with the North Korean Embassy in Beijing on
> Wednesday over the North's missile launches, calling them a
problem
> for regional security, a Japanese Embassy official said. The
protest
> accused Pyongyang of violating a joint 2002 declaration that
called
> for improved ties between the North and Japan, which have no
> diplomatic relations, said the official, who spoke on customary
> condition of anonymity.
>
> "It is a great problem that North Korea launched missiles in spite
of
> warnings by Japan and other countries. This is a problem for
Japan's
> security and international peace and stability," the official
said,
> reading from the formal protest letter.
>
> Japan also stopped chartered flights from North Korea and banned a
> North Korean ferry from entering its waters for six months, chief
> government spokesman Shinzo Abe said. The North Korean ferry is a
> major conduit of trade between the two countries, which have no
> diplomatic relations.
>
> South Korea said the launches would further deepen its neighbor's
> international isolation, and Australia and Russia denounced the
tests
> as provocative.
>
> Australia's foreign minister said he expected North Korea would
> conduct more such tests before the end of the week.
>
> "We think they probably do intend to launch more missiles in the
next
> day or two," Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said after phoning
> North Korea's ambassador to Australia to lodge a protest.
>
> The North has been in a standoff with the West over North Korea's
> nuclear program. And the rhetoric has grown increasingly strident
> with the North vowing Monday to respond with an "annihilating"
> nuclear strike if it is attacked pre-emptively by the United
States.
>
> Talks on the issue — held between North Korea, South Korea, China,
> the United States, Russia and Japan — have been stalled since last
> year over Pyongyang's insistence that Washington drop financial
> sanctions against it.
>
> "North Korea wants to get the U.S. to direct bilateral
negotiations
> by using the missile card," said Paik Hak-soon, a North Korea
expert
> at the Seoul-based Sejong Institute. "Timing the launch date on
July
> 4 is an attempt to apply maximum pressure on the U.S. government."
>
> U.S. nuclear envoy Christopher Hill was to leave Washington for
the
> region later on Wednesday.
>
> Hadley said the long-range missile was the Taepodong-2, which
failed
> 35 seconds after launch. Experts believe the missile — North
Korea's
> most advanced with a range of up to 9,320 miles — could reach the
> United States with a light payload.
>
> The State Department said the smaller missiles include Scuds,
which
> could target South Korea, and Rodongs, which has a range of about
620
> miles and could target Japan.
>
> The launch came after weeks of speculation that the North was
> preparing to test the Taepodong-2 from a site on its northeast
coast.
> U.S. and Japanese officials said six missiles were fired in all,
> launched over a four-hour period beginning about 3:30 a.m.
Wednesday,
> or 2:30 p.m. Tuesday ET.
>
> The North American Aerospace Defense Command — which monitors the
> skies for threats to North American security — said it has been on
> heightened alert for about two weeks and not because of the latest
> tests.
>
> If the timing is correct, the North Korean missiles were launched
> within minutes of Tuesday's liftoff of Discovery, which blasted
into
> orbit from Cape Canaveral in the first U.S. space shuttle launch
in a
> year.
>
> Hadley suggested the tests might have been an attempt to grab the
> international spotlight.
>
> "It's very difficult to know what the North Koreans think they are
> doing this for," Hadley said. "Obviously, it is a bit of an effort
to
> get attention, perhaps because so much attention has been focused
on
> the Iranians."
>
> North Korea's missile program is based on Scud technology provided
by
> the former Soviet Union or Egypt, according to American and South
> Korean officials. North Korea started its Rodong-1 missile project
in
> the late 1980s and test-fired the missile for the first time in
1993.
>
> North Korea had observed a moratorium on long-range missile
launches
> since 1999. It shocked the world in 1998 by firing a Taepodong
> missile over Japan and into the Pacific Ocean.
>
> The United States and its allies South Korea and Japan have taken
> quick steps over the past week to strengthen their missile
defenses.
> Washington and Tokyo are working on a joint missile-defense
shield,
> and South Korea is considering the purchase of American SM-2
> defensive missiles for its destroyers.
>
> The U.S. and North Korea have been in a standoff over Pyongyang's
> nuclear weapons program since 2002. The North claims to have
produced
> nuclear weapons, but that claim has not been publicly verified by
> outside analysts.
>
> While public information on North Korea's military capabilities is
> murky, experts doubt that the regime has managed to develop a
nuclear
> warhead small enough to mount on its long-range missiles.
>
> Nonetheless, Lt. Gen. Michael Maples, director of the Defense
> Intelligence Agency, told U.S. lawmakers last week that officials
> took the potential launch reports seriously and were looking at
the
> full range of capabilities possessed by North Korea.
>
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> Associated Press contributed to this report.
>

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