I’m catching up with some blog postings, and as I stumbled across this one I just shook my head. North Korea, a secretive, reclusive regime with weak ties to the rest of the world and one of the world’s most tense borders, in the process of developing nuclear weapons and a proven exporter of nuclear technology, test fires a long range missile that thankfully fizzled, and the Left’s response is
The fine print is important, though. As the Times notes in their dispatch today: the Taepodong-2 “is thought to be potentially capable of reaching United States territory in Alaska, if North Korea perfects the technology. But that ability has never been demonstrated in a test. (emphasis added)”
So, what, it’s just Alaska? We should wait until they have some better before we start to care?