The test the VP warned us about?

NY DAILY NEWS, 4/5/2009 by Thomas M. Defrank, Washington Bureau Chief - President Obama, are you ready? Here's the test Vice President Joe Biden warned us all about.

WASHINGTON - North Korea's rocket launch is the early diplomatic challenge Vice President Biden famously warned about last fall. Unfortunately for President Obama, Pyongyang's nuclear aspirations are a far more intractable problem than the average global crisis. ∴ Strongman Kim Jong Il's in-your-face defiance during Obama's first overseas trip has at least one silver lining: It lends gravity to Obama's insistence in meetings with Chinese and Russian leaders last week that the North's provocations are reckless and intolerable. ∴ Beyond ratcheting up the rhetoric, however, Obama's punitive options are limited. Read more at the Daily News...