Well, We Dodged Another Bullet

I borrowed this photo from the Huff Post. They rock.

I didn't detect any falling debris from the North Korean missile, ahem, communications satellite launch this morning at 11:30. Actually, I was at the gym punching and kicking away. Caught the news on CNNJ when I got home. They actually did a nice job and interviewed some of my friends at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as going back over a time line of North Korean missile activities including sales to nations on our "bad people" list.

I would encourage everyone reading to do two things:

1 - Please use Google Maps or whatever your favorite mapping site/software is to examine which is closest to North Korea: Hawaii, Alaska, or Guam. Please also note that the MSM talking heads routinely refer to North Korean missile technology from the perspective of what chances it has of reaching Hawaii or Alaska as if those are the two closest U.S. targets to the launches. Then, do a quick Google or other search to determine that Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas are U.S. Territories and thus are inhabited by U.S. citizens. Once you have accomplished this, you will be 100% smarter on the subject of North Korean missile technology potential than any talking head such as Anderson Cooper or Wolf Blitzer, et al. This is, of course entirely ignoring the fact that we have thousands of American military personnel (and cats) stationed in South Korea and Japan that are well within current missile range, including the shorter range Nodong missiles.

2 - Please read the ten basic articles of the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between Japan and the United States of America. This should only take you three minutes or so. Please read Article V twice and you will understand more about the U.S. obligation to protect Japan from attack than most people on the planet, including in our own State Department in Washington, D.C.