MAYBE HILLARY NEEDS TO GO BACK THERE - AT 9:57 P.M. ET: 

PYONGYANG/BEIJING, March 9 (AP) - (Kyodo)—North Korea warned Monday that any move to intercept what it calls a satellite launch and what other countries suspect may be a missile test-firing would result in a counterstrike against the countries trying to stop it.

"We will retaliate (over) any act of intercepting our satellite for peaceful purposes with prompt counterstrikes by the most powerful military means," the official Korean Central News Agency quoted a spokesman of the General Staff of the Korean People's Army as saying.

If countries such as the United States, Japan or South Korea try to intercept the launch, the North Korean military will carry out "a just retaliatory strike operation not only against all the interceptor means involved but against the strongholds" of the countries, it said.

COMMENT:  It's important for Hillary Clinton to go right back to Asia, where she traveled recently, and do some major apologizing and groveling.  She's gotten so good at it - really expert - that some genuflecting would probably do considerable good.  Boy, that BUSH really messed things up, didn't he?

March 8, 2009.