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July 07, 2006

Breaking News

Reuters is reporting that North Korea's Taepodong-2 ballistic missile test that ultimately failed was actually aimed at Hawaiian waters. Reuters cited the Sankei Shimbun for its information, which in turn cited multiple sources in the United States and Japan.

Meanwhile, as China offers a relatively passive response to North Korea's tests, Taiwan is moving forward with plans to test-fire a missile capable of hitting China. Not surprisingly China's reaction to Taiwan's missile plans was a bit different than its reaction to North Korea. Nevertheless, many analysts seem to think tension between these two potentially explosive enemies is actually improving. New direct flights between the two are just one manifestation of the thaw.

Posted by Joshua Claybourn at July 7, 2006 01:44 AM

Comments

I saw this on H&C last night. But, no one is running with this story and even the Administration has no response to it. Leads me to believe Hannity is just running around screaming the "sky is falling" similar to the other week when he had Sen. Santorum discussing WMD in Iraq.

I would have given more credit to Hannity, but the entire segment discussing this story was a shared with Coulter, an expert in American - Korean relations.

Posted by: Anonymous at July 7, 2006 07:58 AM | permalink

What does the N.K. Dear Leader and Rush Limpbaugh have in common?

They both can't keep their rockets up longer than 10 seconds!

Posted by: Anonymous at July 7, 2006 08:23 AM | permalink

I wonder what the Chinese leadership thinks of their asshole neighbors. I think China really needs to clamp down on Dear Leader for its own sake. N.K. is just bad for business which is becoming more and more important to China.

Posted by: Doug at July 7, 2006 12:23 PM | permalink

A missile capable of hitting China from Taiwan? What a feat! That's over 100 miles!

Posted by: Eric Seymour at July 7, 2006 03:38 PM | permalink

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