The Right State

North Korea reminds me of the proverbial man who saws off the very tree limb on which he is sitting.  Only Kim Jong Ill regime instead of learning from its mistakes, looks up from the ground and says, ‘I have a right to saw off that limb.’

North Korea launched six missiles, one of which included the long range Taepodong thought to be capable of hitting the US.

North Korea test-fired another missile Wednesday, intensifying the furor ignited when the reclusive regime launched at least six missiles, including a long-range Taepodong, earlier in the day.

The missiles apparently fell harmlessly into the Sea of Japan, and U.S. officials said the long-range Taepodong-2 failed shortly after take-off, calling into question the technological capability of North Korea’s feared ballistic missile program. Pyongyang last fired a long-range missile in 1998.

But the audacious military exercise drew immediate attention and condemnation.

“The missile launch is an issue that is entirely within our sovereignty. No one has the right to dispute it,” Ri Pyong Dok, a researcher on Japanese affairs at the North’s Foreign Ministry, said on footage aired by TBS. “On the missile launch, we are not bound by any agreement.”

You would think the rogue regime would learn from their lesson of failed launches.  Instead they make all kinds of noises before they launch generating as much attention as possible, launch their missiles anyway ending in an abysmal failure, and then when the international community is up in arms, say we have a right to launch missiles.  Today, there was another failed missile launch making a total of seven.  These people never learn.

I think there should be an IQ test for future leaders of North Korea with a score of 85 being the cut-off point.  That way morons like Kim would not become national leaders.

Michael at Liberty and Justice points out that Kim Jong Ill is acting more like a spoiled brat than anything else.

These missile launches are - as far as I can tell - the results of a regime craving for international attention. They are like that kid, who always longed for attention, but never got it, until he started behaving badly. After all: negative attention still is attention.

As I said, North Korea needs to administer IQ tests to its future leaders.

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