To Launch or Not to Launch?

It appears North Korea may be closer to testing their stupid missile:

Fuel trucks have departed the site where a North Korean missile sits on a launching pad, indicating that a test might be near, two senior U.S. State Department officials said Tuesday.

The removal of the fuel trucks and other auxiliary equipment means the North Koreans may have finished fueling the missile, said the officials, who did not want to be named because of the sensitivity of the information.

Should the North Koreans have completed the fueling “all they would need to do now is press the button,” one of the sources said.

What I find interesting about this whole missile test fire story is the media reaction to the story.  The CNN article this posting is linked to, has a picture of a few anti-Kim Jong-il protesters in Seoul suggesting that all of South Korea is up in arms against Kim Jong-il and breathlessly awaiting to see what happens with his missile test.  The truth is that next to nobody in South Korea cares about his missile test.  South Koreans are more concerned over what America does in response to a missile test because at the end of the day it is their behinds that have hundred of thousands of North Korean artillery rounds landing on them if the US government decides to attack North Korea.

I was watching CNN earlier today and of course they were hyping the North Korean threat to start a nuclear war if they are bombed, complete with a nuclear explosion mushroom cloud to in the background of the story to emphasize the perceived threat to America.  Reality is much different however, because it is extremely unlikely North Korea would start a nuclear war over a bombing of a missile test when they can get back at the US by other means I have discussed before which no news organization even explores.

The message from the US media is very clear, the North Koreans want to nukes us and we need to do something about it.  It is such an amazing difference compared to the US media message that the Iraq War is bad, to many soldier dying and we need to cut and run now.  Do they have any idea of how bloody a second Korean War will be and yet they are actively promoting starting one.  Like the old saying goes, be careful what you wish for, but then again the media isn’t the one with artillery and rockets pointed at it.