Let's Move a Missile

Today's installment in the continuing saga of North Korean threats is the news that the NK's have moved missiles to a location on their east coast.  The media plays this up as a big event because the missiles have been moved, but it is hard to see why this is so.  There is nothing to indicate that the missile is any more likely to be fired from its new location than its old one.  In fact, this move looks like the sort of thing that Krazy Kim would do to get attention but without raising the stakes in the confrontation with the South Koreans and Americans.  Alternatively, the story is just intended to fill a gap in the media's coverage of the NK story. 

It is nice to have a day when there is nothing too threatening to increase the tension on this front.  Nevertheless, we still stand at a point where the loco crowd in Pyongyang may decide for their own demented reason that they need to attack.  We need to remember that the NK leaders do not see the world as we do.  Their "rational" decision may be far from the ones that we would make.  This is far from over.