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Foxnews.com reports that the communist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea tested five missiles off its east coast Monday. This report is according to an unnamed South Korean government official who confirmed that the five missiles fired today were the first missiles tested since the July tests that drew international scrutiny. Both the United States and South Korea stressed that they would still strive to continue talks to disarm North Korea, but the South Korean government appears to have taken a stronger stance on the issue.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered the following statement according to Fox: “Our goal remains the same..Our consultations with our partners and our allies continues unabated. It is unaffected by the behavior of North Korea.”

However, the South Korean government, whose leadership is supposedly taking a tougher stance toward North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, is not backing down from pressing North Korea to disarm. This pressure comes despite recent meetings between the two countries to discuss flooding, and another mmeeting to allow separated families in the North and South to reunite. The article also mentions that the two countries officially remain at war because a formal treaty to end the 1950s war has never been signed.

President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in part due to his work to promote nuclear disarmament. Now is a good time to put those skills to work and prevent a communist country from obtaining nuclear weapons. That will prove your doubters wrong, Mr. President…