The DPRK are ratching up the rhetoric against South Korea and specifically against hard-line president, Lee Myung Bak, on the first anniversary of his election.

As an anniversary present, the Space Cadets in the DPRK are preparing to send an improved (working?) Taepodong-2 into space.

Oh, and by-the-way, they have 180,000 spec ops forces (up from 120,000) ready to crash the party.

It’s intriging to compare this development with those of the Iranian satellite launch on Feb 2, 2009.  Apparently, their hope is that UN sanctions won’t apply to missile launches that are declared to be part of a civilian space program.