North Korea Tests Two More Missiles

The Yonhap News Agency out of South Korea has reported that the North carried out two additional missile tests Tuesday. The isolated Communist state fired one surface to air and one surface to ship missile off it's eastern coast. This comes just one day after the US Geological Survey detected a 4.7 magnitude seismic reading out of the same region where North Korea tested its first nuclear bomb in 2006. The global community has taken a stand against North Korea's continued production and testing of nuclear armaments. President Obama, the United Nations and several other western nations have condemned the test and in a rare act of global solidarity Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has publicly condemned the tests saying:

The worst thing that a government could do would be to spend a nation's resources, which should be spent for people's welfare, to produce and store nuclear weapons. We oppose this and all of the countries who have nuclear weapons must enroll in a collective commitment and be disarmed within a clear plan and timetable.

The North Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) has reported that these tests come as part of a 150-day national campaign in the hopes of:

intensifying the drive for effecting a new revolutionary surge to open the gate to a thriving nation.

It has also been reported by Sky News that North Korea plans to test additional missiles as soon as tomorrow of it's Western Coast. Currently the North has imposed a ban on ships in areas off its eastern coast, presumably to continue to test missiles. These moves have encouraged South Korea to participate fully in the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). The PSI was established in May 2003 by the United States in order to stop the trafficking of weapons of mass destruction. Pyongyang has said it would view South Korea's participation in the PSI as an act of war.