Garden State Patriot

“Mark my words. Within the next, first six months of this administration, if we win, there going to — we’re going to face a major international challenge. Because they’re going to want to test him, just like they did young John Kennedy. They’re going to want to test him. And they’re going to find out this guy’s got steel in his spine.” — Joe Biden

Looks like Joe Biden’s prediction may be about to come true – at least the testing part. Kim Jong (Mentally) Il & Co. - no doubt smelling weakness have firmly clenched their fists - and are about to launch what is likely a ballistic missile test (of course, the communist state is claiming it’s a satellite launch). Any interference, they say, will be met with a fierce military response.

PYONGYANG/BEIJING, March 9 (AP) – (Kyodo)—North Korea warned Monday that any move to intercept what it calls a satellite launch and what other countries suspect may be a missile test-firing would result in a counterstrike against the countries trying to stop it. “We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most powerful military means,” the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army as saying.

If countries such as the United States, Japan or South Korea try to intercept the launch, the North Korean military will carry out “a just retaliatory strike operation not only against all the interceptor means involved but against the strongholds” of the countries, it said.

“Shooting our satellite for peaceful purposes will precisely mean a war,” it added.

Oh, what will our fearless leader do now that The One’s message of love hasn’t pacified the North Koreans? Will he have a spine of steel? Or will he wilt like jello? Do we really need to ask?

Cross-posted at Conservatives with Attitude!