IN THE REAL WORLD - AT 3:04 P.M. ET: 

March 5 (Bloomberg) -- North Korea said it can’t guarantee the safety of South Korean civilian aircraft flying over its territory during U.S.-South Korean military exercises, describing the maneuvers as a “grave provocation” that may prompt a war.

“No one knows what military conflicts will be touched off by the reckless war exercises of the U.S. and the puppet clique for a war of aggression” against North Korea, the official Korean Central News Agency said today in an e-mailed statement. “Security cannot be guaranteed for South Korean civil airplanes flying through the territorial air of our side and its vicinity.”

COMMENT:  That's a pretty serious threat, essentially a threat to shoot down airliners, with their passengers aboard.  The secretary of state was recently in the region, and it's pretty apparent that her presence, and the arrival on Earth of The One in the White House, have not changed North Korean behavior.  Obviously, this is all because of BUSH (!!).

March 5, 2009