  North Korean Attack Reveals America’s Diminishing Political
Power  November 26, 2010 by    North Korean Attack Reveals
America's Diminishing Political PowerNorth Korea bombarded
Yeonpyeong Island — a small South Korean island near the two
Koreas’ disputed sea border — on Nov. 23 with some 200 artillery
shells, killing two South Korean marines and two civilians and
injuring more than a dozen residents. The news was the latest in
a series of frightening developments about the isolated
communist North Korean regime.  Just days before the attack,
nuclear scientist Siegfried Hecker, a former director of the Los
Alamos Nuclear Laboratory, announced that he had been allowed to
tour a new, sophisticated uranium enrichment facility in North
Korea. In March, North Korea torpedoed and sank a South Korean
ship, the Cheonan, killing 46 sailors.  A day after the
bombardment, the United States announced that the aircraft
carrier U.S.S. George Washington and its strike group would join
South Korean forces in a naval exerci