Foreign Affairs Edition [News Bits]

Off hand I don't know how far Hawaii and the West Coast is from North Korea, but this info doesn't bode well: "Taepodong-2, flew at least 2,000 miles, doubling the range of an earlier rocket it tested in 1998.." In another ten years will they again double the missile's flying range? How much longer before they're capable of hitting Honolulu? I'm not saying we should have a preemptive first strike, but I'm afraid the day may come soon when the idea will have to be seriously considered. Then again twenty years ago, in April 1989, few people would have believed that the Soviet Union would become defunct in a few years. Maybe we can hope for a similar outcome in North Korea.