What the heck does North Korea think it's trying to do?!?!

North Korea actually did test fire it's missiles. It is an interesting coincidence that the missiles were launched within minutes of the US's shuttle launch of Discovery on America's Independence Day, no less(Reference Link). The largest missile, believed capable of carrying a small nuclear payload to the US mainland, malfunctioned a few seconds after the launch. It is unknown whether North Korea does have the technology to attach a nuclear warhead to the Taepodong-2.

In the previous days before the launch today, North Korea stated that if the United States made a preemptive attack to disable the launch, then they would respond with "a relentless annihilating strike and a nuclear war" (Reference Link).

Obviously, North Korea is acting very intentional, provocative, and aggressive. We shall see how the US responds as well as the countries that have been trying to engage North Korea in the 6-party talks about it's nuclear programme (Japan, South Korea, China, the US, and Russia). Strange that North Korea desired to engage in bilevel talks with the US only and refused the US's persistence to engage in multilevel talks. Now North Korea has allegedly timed it's missile launch with the Discovery launch.

Hmmm....