Korean threat launches Senate into next phase of missile defense
"Nothing focuses the mind," Mark Twain might have said, "like the prospect of a North Korean ballistic missile launch." Indeed, the dramatic revelation that the North Koreans may be preparing to launch one of their Taepo Dong missiles over the Pacific, threatening such U.S. allies as South Korea, Japan and Taiwan, may have finally focused the minds of the Senate's most determined opponents of missile defense.
Source: heritage.org