World Awaits Imminent North Korea Missile Launch

From Peter Speigel and Evan Ramstad at The Wall Street Journal:

The first day of a five-day period set by North Korea to launch a rocket or missile passed Saturday with no action beyond a media statement from Pyongyang and a mistaken report from Japan that the rocket had been fired.

A senior U.S. military official said that despite the capabilities of the ships and spy satellites monitoring the launch site, the North Korean missile will have to be “up in the air for a few minutes’ before the Pentagon can confirm whether it is on a trajectory to place a satellite in orbit, or on a more vertical ballistic path that could threaten U.S. and allied territory.   [Read More]