Defense secretary Gates says North Korean ballistic missiles pose 'direct threat' to U.S.

Peacenik is sick and tired of U.S. sabre rattling. The North Koreans are coming. The North Koreans are coming. This has as much credibility as the infamous balsa wood toy planes that supposedly were able to deliver weapons of mass destruction from Iraq to the U.S.A. Why is the U.S. trying to keep everyone on edge. Should Peacenik be building a bomb shelter, or buying duct tape? The terrorists are coming. Financial collapse is coming. Bird Flu is coming. Food riots are coming? The U.S. and Canada are led by dolts, elected by dolts. Peacenik has a plan for dealing with all the nonsense. Do you?

BEIJING --U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates warned North Korea Tuesday that its nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile programs are "becoming a direct threat to the United States."

Gates, who is in China on the second leg of a four-country Asia tour, predicted that North Korea's reclusive government would succeed in developing an intercontinental ballistic missile within five years.

But, in a first for a U.S. senior official, Gates also gave North Korea some concrete suggestions about what the United States wants it to do in order to restart stalled talks over its nuclear weapons program: declare a moratorium on both missile and nuclear tests.

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