The South Korean press, reading the tea leaves, suggests that “reports of KJI’s presence in North Hamgyong Province”:http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKTRE51O1BH20090225?sp=true mean a space launch is nigh.

That sound you hear is two or three dozen wonks sacrificing chickens to whichever deity promises to ensure the release of good footage.

If the title of this post puzzles you, “clarification is here”:http://english.cri.cn/4406/2008/09/25/1141s409110.htm.

“Kwangmyongsong”:http://www.totalwonkerr.net/1877/kwangmyongsong-kwangmyongsong-kwangmyongsong, or so I’ve read somewhere or other, means “bright star.”