North Korea Heating Up,

Hey folks,

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice making statements. President Bush talking with Russian President Putin who made the call to us. Statements being made by top U.S. diplomats like,

"I can assure everyone that it would be taken with utmost seriousness."

The United States, Japan, Australia, South Korea and other countries have urged North Korea to abandon any missile firing. North Korea fuels the missile. Plans the launch. Their reason? North Korea says it needs nuclear weapons and a delivery system to counter what it contends are U.S. intentions to invade or topple the government. Of course this is not true.

Secretary Rice said,

"It would be a very serious matter and, indeed, a provocative act should North Korea decide to launch that missile," That it "would once again show North Korea is determined to deepen its isolation, determined not to take a path that is a path of compromise and a path of peace, but rather instead to once again saber-rattle."

There are talks and our missiles are ready, to blow this "test flight" out of the sky if they do launch. Remember back to the Reagan era, the "Star Wars" program? You know, the one that got laughed at? Well, we are continuing to work on that right now. We also have some missiles ready to go if a missile was to head here.

North Korea would be wise to abandon this test flight of their 116-foot-long missile has a firing range of 9,300 miles that could reach as far as the U.S. West Coast. Unfortunately, I do not believe they have any intentions on doing that.

With all this going on, and a possible launch within the next 48 hours, President Bush is going on a 15th trip to Europe. President Bush, in a speech last night, boasted the ties between the United States and Europe, praising joint efforts to end Syrian involvement in Lebanon, to establish peace between Israelis and Palestinians, fight poverty, AIDS and genocide in Africa, battle terrorism, and establish democracy in Afghanistan and Iraq. He also said that he was heading to Vienna, Austria, for a one-day annual U.S.-European Union summit on Wednesday with a wish list as well. He called on Europe to eliminate agricultural subsidies so that talks for a global free-trade pact can go forward and to make good on pledges of help for Iraq's reconstruction.

He was saying the normal things you would expect to hear, like,

"America and Europe must work together to advance freedom and democracy,"

"A free and sovereign Iraq requires the strong support of Europe," he said. "And some of the most important support for Iraqis is coming from European democracies with recent memories of tyranny: Poland and Hungary and Romania and Bulgaria and the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Georgia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia."

Now some would and will consider this interesting that President Bush is leaving the country as North Korea prepares to test this missile. Wait and see folks. I'm sure someone in the Mass Media Drones or Liberal blogs will point this out. But know this, EVERYONE, from us to many others, are watching North Korea with a microscope. Other than continuing to go ahead with the test, I do not believe they can do much more. But the timing is interesting non-the-less.

Let’s hope we can all work together to bring this situation under control..

Peter