North Korea playing usual game with missile launches

By Ralph Cossa

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Mar 26, 2012

~~<p>Now what? Just when we thought things were getting better, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea pulled the rug out from under everyone by announcing a planned satellite launch to commemorate Great Leader Kim Il-Sung’s 100th birthday celebrations.</p>
<p>Pyongyang pretends to believe that there is a difference between long-range ballistic missile tests (which it recently foreswore) and satellite launches using the same launch vehicle — a distinction lost on most others, specifically the United Nations Security Council, which banned “all missile activity” by North Korea, including “any launch using ballistic missile technology.”</p>
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Now what? Just when we thought things were getting better, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea pulled the rug out from under everyone by announcing a planned satellite launch to commemorate Great Leader Kim Il-Sung’s 100th birthday celebrations.

Pyongyang pretends to believe that there is a difference between long-range ballistic missile tests (which it recently foreswore) and satellite launches using the same launch vehicle — a distinction lost on most others, specifically the United Nations Security Council, which banned “all missile activity” by North Korea, including “any launch using ballistic missile technology.” Login for more...