North Korea test fires a series of missiles

One wonders if they did this on the 4th of July just to fuck up our festivities or make some sort of point.

North Korea test-fired a series of missiles, including the intercontinental Taepodong-2, around dawn (local time) on Wednesday. The exercise was not entirely successful.

Not entirely successful huh? Maybe the point they were trying to make clouded their minds enough that they forgot to consider the possibility that they couldn't actually make the point they were so hopeful of making. Suckers.

The timing coincided with the Independence Day celebrations in the United States. And, Washington, which was the first to "detect" the multiple launches, indicated that the long-range missile, with a suspected reach up to the U.S. west coast across the Pacific Ocean, had failed.

Oh well. Shooting duds off over there are we? Maybe they were just trying to add to our Independence Day celebrations and were all out of bottle rockets.

None of the missiles made it as far as Japan, all crashing into the Sea of Japan separating the island from the Korean Peninsula, officials said.

So what, has North Korea declared war on the ocean? I'm confused.