Pffft!

North Korea has fired its ICBM along with two Scuds apparently intended as diversionss. The missle failed dismally.

Too bad. We could have used the target practice.

The attempt nevertheless deserves international condemnation as a threat to peace. Maybe we should fire one of our own over their territory to demonstrated once again how it's done.

Update: Later reports came in that upped the number of missiles to about a half-dozen. If they hoped to impress us, chosing the same day as a shuttle launch was a big mistake. Trying to worry us on the Fourth of July seemed pretty weak as well. I wonder how many North Koreans could have been fed with the money burned in these launches. It would be comic if this regime weren't real and so, so brutal.

How can you take a country seriously that uses the syllable "dong" in the names of their rockets?