[TheRealVille]

North Korea has responded to UN Security Council condemnation for its rocket launch by reversing a pledge to allow monitors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect its uranium enrichment programme.

Further thumbing its noses at its critics, North Korea has also announced plans to develop a new rocket and put a satellite into orbit within five years.
The UN Security Council on Monday adopted a presidential statement that "strongly condemns" the launch of a rocket that utilised ballistic missile technology.
Washington also announced that it was cancelling a plan to provide 240,000 tons of food aid to the impoverished nation.
Even if Pyongyang described the mission as a satellite launch or space launch vehicle launch, it "is a serious violation of the Security Council resolutions" passed in 2006 and 2009, after the North conducted nuclear tests, the 15-member council said.
Significantly, China agreed on the strong wording of the statement, an indication of Beijing's growing displeasure with its unpredictable neighbour.

Ignoring the criticism, Pyongyang has declared that it will not permit IAEA inspectors to visit its Yongbyon nuclear facility, diplomatic sources told the Yomiuri newspaper.
With both the food aid plan and nuclear monitoring both now cancelled, on top of the rocket launch, the agreement reached between Pyongyang and Washington in February to build up bilateral ties is effectively dead.
North Korean media have also revealed the regime's plans to push ahead with its space programme, in spite of the embarrassing failure of Friday's launch.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...Korea.html

[judgementday]

Not surprised.

At some point that nation is going to have a civil war.

[RunItUpTheGut]

IMO he is digging his own grave.
He's not as smart as his daddy and his inexperience will show greatly.
He's going to piss the wrong person off someday. His people are pretty much made to show praise and worship him for all they can when in reality his own people hate him. There starving while their leader has a military parade showing tanks and drones as a sign of empowerment when every other formidable country has the exact same thing.