From the Times Online:

NORTH KOREA test-fired at least five missiles early today, defying warnings from foreign governments and risking international action against the isolated Stalinist state.

At dawn local time, there were contradictory reports of the number and type of the missiles, but there appeared to have been more than three separate launches.

Update: the count is now at 7 missiles.

Two of these were medium-range Scud-type missiles, which landed in the sea that divides North Korea from Japan. But at least one may have been a Taepodong-2, a long-range intercontinental missile able to strike Japan, Hawaii and Alaska. “We believe it was the Taepodong-2,” a Pentagon official said.

US officials suggested that that missile had failed 40 seconds after being fired from a site in the northeast of North Korea. None landed close to land or caused any damage.

You know, it is a sad thing when you get a chance to use your missile and it blows 40 seconds after you start...but enough of my personal problems.

It's pretty sad when you try to intimidate the world with your new ICBM and your test shows that they just don't work. We didn't even get a chance to shoot it down. I think they have proven that they are adolescent losers looking for attention and its about time to take care of the problem permanently. Perhaps China has finally had enough after being ignored on this issue.

Update: CNN drops a bomb:

The senior State Department official said the launches were timed to coincide with the launch of the space shuttle Discovery from Florida, calling it “a provocative act designed to get attention."

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