On top of this has been a series of threats and counter threats by North Korea and the Bush administration. Shortly after the DPRK expelled IAEA inspectors, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld remarked pointedly that “the United States is perfectly capable of fighting on two theaters at once”—signaling to North Korea that they shouldn’t take advantage of the USA’s preoccupation with Iraq. CIA Director George Tenet sent a tremor of worry through the United States news media when he testified to the Senate Armed Forces Committee on February 12th of this year (the day before the IAEA meeting that found North Korea in material breech of the NPT) that North Korea has nuclear armed missiles capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States. (This “news” actually recycled the 1998 Rumsfeld report that was itself highly exaggerated) Within a few days of Tenet’s testimony the North Koreans announced the resumption of missile tests that had been on hold since 1998. Then on March 2nd four North Korea MIG fighters shadowed a US RC-13S Cobra Ball aircraft used to monitor missile launchings off the east coast of North Korea. The fighters had apparently tried to force the US intelligence plane to land. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld responded by sending B 52s to Guam.