By Stan Goodenough
May 29, 2009
North Korea Friday fired off its sixth short-range surface-to-surface missile and warned it will not sit quietly by while the United Nations seeks to punish Pyongyang for test-firing an atom bomb earlier this week.
The threat came even as the Obama administration demanded yet again that Israel stop allowing its people to continue their normal lives in Jewish communities across Samaria and Judea.
America's war of words with the nuclear-rattling North Koreans broke out a week after President Barack Obama rejected an Israeli appeal that it clamp down immediately on the Iranian nuclear program.
Iran, which is racing to develop its own atomic bomb, has taken note of, and is exploiting to the full, America's unwillingness to robustly oppose its effort.
Meanwhile 37,000 US troops are within range of the unstable North Korean president's weapons of mass-destruction.