Saturday, December 21 VIENNA, Austria (AP) - North Korea (news - web sites) disabled U.N. surveillance equipment installed at one of its reactors Saturday, prompting the U.N. nuclear agency to express "deep regret" over the action and issue a new call for restraint. Oh, yes, Iraq is the immediate danger. Right.

Of course, when would be a better time for a country to flex its muscles than when the world's attention is diverted somewhere else? It might be mostly a nose-thumbing.