Possible Nuke test, shots fired along DMZ.

Not much time today, but I thought this Washington Post story was quite interesting.

With the tense international feelings of a possible North Korean nuclear weapons test, North Korean soldiers didn't help when they crossed the DMZ for reasons unknown. South Korean soldiers warned them off:

A midday incursion Saturday by North Korean troops into the southern side of the no-man's-land separating North and South Korea only stoked the unease.

South Korean soldiers rattled off 40 warning shots at the five communist troops who crossed the center line of the Demilitarized Zone, the inter-Korean buffer.

Not only that, but the UNSC shook its finger at the commies:

With a possible test expected as early as Sunday, the U.N. Security Council issued a stern statement Friday urging the country to abandon its nuclear ambitions and warning of unspecified consequences if the isolated, communist regime doesn't comply.

More importanly, Japan is very upset, and might just do everything short of military intervention to hurt Kim Jong Il:

Japan plans to step up economic sanctions against North Korea, tighten trade restrictions and freeze additional North Korea-linked bank accounts should a nuclear test be carried out, Japan's Nihon Keizai newspaper reported.

I just do not know what is preventing Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud "Adolf" Ahmadinejad from forming an alliance, I guess it either has happened and it's very low profile or more likely China views such an alliance as a threat to their regional dominance.

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