North Korean nuclear test followup

Last night North Korea evidently did an underground test of a nuclear missile. BBC News has some good coverage of the recent nuclear weapon test by North Korea (see this post). As could be anticipated, basically no country except N. Korea is happy about this latest development coming from the nation defiant to international pressure (especially from the US, and recently even more from China and Japan... South Korea has remained relatively silent and has tried to remain neutral, for a good reason). Many analysts have said that the North Korean government, led by the supposed-mainac Kim Jong-il, is looking a mass package of incentives (including cutting sanctions, which they ironically will get more of) much larger than the ones offered to Iran — another nuclear problem, albeit less pressing, developed, or presently dangerous, that the global community has tried to stop. North Korea, however, already has be nerve and material to make a weapon, and has shown that they have made a workable nuclear scud missile. What will happen next in this super-dramatic series of developments?

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