South Korean and U.S. troops facing North Korea boosted their alert level today to the highest category since 2006, after the communist regime threatened military strikes on allied troops in escalating tensions over its nuclear test. North Korea threatened Wednesday to attack any U.S. and South Korean ships that try to intercept its vessels and renounced a 1953 truce halting the Korean War fighting, raising the prospect of a naval clash off the Korean peninsula's west coast. The North was responding to Seoul's decision to join a U.S.-led anti-proliferation program aimed at stopping and inspecting ships suspected of transporting banned weapons, including nuclear technology. South Korea announced it was joining after the North's underground test blast of a nuclear bomb.

Kim Jong-il is once again experiencing "little man" syndrome. He is afraid that if he doesn't declare war or screw up a missile launch every 6-8 months, the rest of the world will forget about him. How long will the spineless UN allow this to continue? How many resolutions have to be passed before they realize the guy is crazy?

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