NORAD Detects Multiple North Korean Missile Launches

Details via CNN/Reuters:

North Korea has launched a missile but it was not the
intercontinental missile being monitored by the United States, CNN
reported on Tuesday, quoting sources.

CNN said the missile, reported to have landed in the Sea of Japan,
was smaller than North Korea’s Taepodong-2 missile, which is believed
to be capable of hitting some parts of Alaska.

and from Fox News:

Japanese government officials were trying to determine
whether the missiles were Taepodong II, long-range ballistic missiles
that have been sitting on a launch pad for weeks, or whether it was a
different type of missile.

One U.S. government official told FOX News that if the first were the Taepodong missile, it was “a real big dud.”

It just got serious. Breaking via CNN:

North Korea test-fires at least three missiles, one of
them a long-range weapon that the U.S. has been monitoring, U.S.
sources say.

It looks like the Taepodong-2 was a dud:

North Korea launched a long-range Taepodong-2 missile
early Wednesday in an apparently unsuccessful test that failed in
flight, a senior State Department official said.

North Korea also tested at least two smaller missiles, U.S. sources told CNN.

John Murney asks:

Can someone out there please explain to me why Iraq was invaded, while North Korea remains uninvaded?