Kang Nam Wonders Around the Pacific

The Washington Post is reporting the North Korean ship being shadowed by the US Navy, the Kang Nam, suspected of carrying arms has turned around. Where is the ship headed now? Nobody seems to know. It looks like folks are speculating now what it means, and about the next step.

U.S. officials have not said why the Navy is monitoring the Kang Nam but the New York Times reported on Tuesday some senior members of the Obama administration are wondering whether they are being manipulated by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

"The whole thing just doesn't add up," the newspaper quoted one senior administration official as saying.

"My worry is that we make a big demand about seeing the cargo, and then there's a tense standoff, and when it's all over we discover that old man Kim set us up to look like George Bush searching for nonexistent (weapons of mass destruction)."

Bottom line...

The UN Sanctions are working.