Kim Jong II's song from outer space

The leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Kim Jong II has once again flexed the military muscles of his starving state, writes the daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung commenting on North Korea's recent missile test. "China, without whose economic help Kim Jong II's regime and his abused state could hardly survive, shows restraint when things threaten to get serious in the nuclear dispute. … The same goes for Russia. In the course of the six-party negotiations North Korea's dialogue partners have not managed to resolutely pull together and have thus provided Kim Jong II again and again with more leeway for dangerous atomic escapades. On the day of the most recent missile test US President Barack Obama was dreaming in Prague of a world without nuclear weapons. A wonderful dream. But Kim Jong II wanted to sing a different song in outer space, a song in praise of a regime that makes the nuclear option the basis of its policy."

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