North Korean Roulette

From the NYT: North Korea test-fired at least seven missiles over the Sea of Japan on Wednesday, including an intercontinental missile that apparently failed or was aborted 42 seconds after it was launched, officials in Washington and Japan said.
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With all our resources tied up in Iraq how WILL the Bush people handle a REAL threat from a country that is actually building a weapons arsenal against us?

Wait, should the Times even write about this stuff? I mean, we don't want the North Koreans to know our government is monitoring them, just like we don't want the terrorists to know that we're monitoring their bank accounts.