[ToddT]

Hmm,
exercising a soveriegn right, that maybe, the problem is Japan is in the line of fire for such tests, the missile that failed would have over flown Japan, just like in 1994. N. Korea didn't care to inform Japan of the test firing then or now. The short range one they fired got no closer than 600 miles. N korea kid napped off japanese soil around a half dozen Japanese citizens. Turns out they recently kidnapped aSouth Kearon couple to build a new theatre.

N. Korean ,Collapse, China gets to much milage out of th grief it vause the west to allow that to happen, after all they bailed them in the korean war (260 chinese came over boarded and pushed UN/US forces back.) South korea also does not want to see NK collapse since the y will end being brunt of the fallout, there also the ones under threat by the nukes if hostilites break out (not mention Seol (sp) is in range of NK artillery, estimates 50'000 SK civilian causulties would occur within the first day of a conflict.

The N. Korean leader is perfeclty happy to let his people starve (mostly outside the cities) for its not his fault its the result of the evil and vile west (US) trying to exterminate them, and he is their protector, their still alive aren't they.