Hu's on first, second, and third

PRK again. Jeffrey @ armscontrolwonk has some more postmortem, pondering a fast tracked warhead fizzling thanks to what David Kay called a "vortex of corruption" in tin-pot and hardline political cultures -- “doubts about a system don’t always go up easily in the command chain” of such countries.

Gee, that sounds a hell of a lot like a superpower I know of. And a few LLCs. Anyway, it's good info and well worth worth a look. And you gotta love his kicker:

I close this discourse about operational confidence by noting that the United States has built a missile defense that does not work, to defend against a North Korean missile that does not work, that would carry a nuclear warhead that does not work.

This is all very postmodern.