North Korea launched a long-range rocket Sunday in what U.S. and South Korean officials deemed a provocative act.

“With this provocative act, North Korea has ignored its international obligations, rejected unequivocal calls for restraint, and further isolated itself from the community of nations,” U.S. President Barack Obama said in a statement.

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“We have made it very clear to the North Koreans that their missile launch is provocative, it puts enormous strains on the six-party talks and that they should stop the launch,” Obama said while on a stop in France.

Obama warned that the United States will join with its allies to take “appropriate steps” to let North Korea know it can’t violate United Nations rules and get away with it.

The missile passed Japan, but as of now, the UN does not know where the missile is headed. North Korea says it is only a rocket. We can only hope.

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Second is this:

There’s days when I think I’ve seen pretty much everything on the internet. And then something like this comes up and whacks me upside the head.