North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. KCNA / ReutersThe Bigger Issue Behind North Korea's Missile Launch -- Time Magazine
Though older now, and a bit infirm, and increasingly consumed with thoughts of passing on to his youngest son the family business (running North Korea into the ground), Kim Jong Il still has a fondness for a decent Fourth of July fireworks show. Pyongyang shot at least seven short-range SCUD missiles in the direction of the Sea of Japan on Saturday morning, in what some analysts termed an act of "defiance" against the United States and its allies in east Asia. But the SCUDS, fired from the eastern coast of North Korea, have limited range, and fell harmlessly into the sea less than 300 miles (480 kilometers) from where they were launched. The exercise drew perfunctory condemnations from the U.S. and some of the North's neighbors. Indeed, "acts of defiance" have become so predictable with Kim that they've come to be business as usual. The chief of the U.S. naval forces, Admiral Gary Roughhead, meeting with Japanese counterparts in Tokyo Saturday morning, blandly observed that American and allied ships in the region were simply "tracking the missiles" and "observing the activities that are going on."
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Photo released by Korean Central News Agency in January 2009 showing missile-firing drill at an undisclosed location in North Korea Photo: AFP/GETTY More News On North Korea's Missile Tests
SKorea Says North Fires 7 Missiles Off East Coast -- Yahoo News/AP
North Korea marks July 4 with missile tests -- The Telegraph
N Korea fires off seventh 'provocative' Scud -- ABC News (Australia)
North Korea Test Fires Short Range Missiles -- Voice of America
North Korea test-fires more missiles, says Seoul -- CNN
U.S. missile defense: Pentagon confident radar can counter North Korea missile test -- Baltimore Sun
N. Korea likes fireworks on 4th of July -- National Post
Q+A - How North Korea earns money from arms sales -- Reuters
A look at North Korea's missile arsenal -- AP
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