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obsidianwings.blogs.com - 4/6/2009
Whatever it Is I Think I See
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by Eric Martin Over the weekend, in defiance of UN Resolutions and international pressure, North Korea launched another test of its long range missile (Taepodong-2). As with North Korea's prior two efforts to test its long range missile capacity, this weekend's attempt was a resounding ...
John Bolton Says Barack Obama's Reaction to the North Korean Missile Launch Sends the Wrong Signal to Israel and Iran
online.wsj.com - 4/6/2009
John Bolton Says Barack Obama's Reaction to the North Korean Missile Launch Sends the Wrong ...
— online.wsj.com — JOHN R. BOLTON Prior to North Korea's launch yesterday of a Taepodong-2 ballistic missile, President Barack Obama... declared that such an action would be "provocative." This public statement was an attempt to reinforce the administration's private ... (more) John Bolton Says Barack Obama's Reaction to the ...

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Trackers Deem North Korea’s Missile Flight a Failure
nytimes.com - 4/5/2009
Trackers Deem North Korea’s Missile Flight a Failure
— nytimes.com — failed in its highly vaunted effort to fire a satellite into orbit, military and private experts said... Sunday after reviewing detailed tracking data that showed the missile and payload fell into the sea. Some said the failure undercut the North Korean ... (more) Trackers Deem North Korea’s Missile Flight a Failure

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U.N. Security Council fails to agree on North Korea reaction - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com - 4/6/2009
U.N. Security Council fails to agree on North Korea reaction - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — The U.S. and its allies fear that North Korea was testing its ability to deliver nuclear weapons... by firing off the three-stage rocket, which flew over Japan on Sunday morning and plunged into the Pacific. President Obama and other leaders were quick ... (more) U.N. Security Council fails to agree on North Korea ...

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Newshoggers.com:  Norks 0 for 3, GOP Calls For War

PoliGazette:  You Can Have Whatever You Like

Newshoggers.com:  North Korea Says It Successfully Tested Nuke

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Norks 0 for 3, GOP Calls For War
Newshoggers.com — ... Writing at Obsidian Wings, our collegue Eric Martin notes that the North Korean missile program is an Epic fail. So of course rightwingers are panicking and calling for an immediate war that would make Iraq look like tea in the park. What else is new? ...

You Can Have Whatever You Like
PoliGazette — ... The statement “The West probably can’t have it all” is one of the strongest critiques of the brash, petulant, bellicose foreign policy that has come to dominate the Republican Party in recent decades.  It is a foreign policy posture that is born out of maximalist fantasy of the world, fed by delusions of ...

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Truth?
PoliGazette — ... The statement “The West probably can’t have it all” is one of the strongest critiques of the brash, petulant, bellicose foreign policy that has come to dominate the Republican Party in recent decades.  It is a foreign policy posture that is born out of maximalist fantasy of the United States’ position in the world, fed by delusions of ...

North Korea Says It Successfully Tested Nuke
Newshoggers.com — ... and put everybody back to square one. Then back in April, North Korea was subjected to additional sanctions after hawks within the Obama administration successfully pressured to have what the North Koreans said was a satellite test launch classified as a missile test. The basis for declaring additional sanctions didn't fit the spirit of previous UN resolutions even if it did, technically, fit the letter as the vehicle used was certainly capable of dual use. The launch failed, leaving the Norks 0 for 3. ...

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