North Korea Throws a Tantrum

By: Val Palac

If the U.N. doesn't apologize for condemning the rocket launch by North Korea on April 5th, then they will fire an intercontinental ballistic missile or carry out another nuclear test. Why are they threatening the U.N. if all they're trying to do is launch a peaceful communications satellite into space?

Robert Wood from the State Department said something along the lines of- North Korea can either continue isolating itself in the corner, or it can try being a big kid and come down to the kitchen table and negotiate.

The threat is another sign that North Korea is not taking part in the six-party talks between South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the US, which are about an international nuclear disarmament.

It's believed that North Korea has produced enough plutonium to create six to eight nuclear bombs. However, they don't yet have the technology to minimize a bomb to be put onto a missile.