Pyongyang's Powder Keg: What's Behind North Korea's Fury Over the US South Korea Arms Deal?
Pyongyang's latest outburst against the proposed sale of AIM 9X Sidewinder missiles to South Korea is just another chapter in a long running saga of posturing and sabre rattling.
Beneath the shrill rhetoric, however, lies a complex web of motivations that warrant closer examination. North Korea has condemned the US$125 million arms deal as a "new threat" to its security environment.