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A couple of foreign stories had nothing to do with G20. CBS' Pentagon correspondent David Martin sat down with David Albright, a onetime weapons inspector, to preview North Korea's launch of its Taep'o-dong rocket. Its purported mission is for communications not a military testfire, with a trajectory over Japan into the Pacific Ocean. Albright offered his interpretation: "It is really just something that goes Beep-Beep-Beep. It is not a sophisticated satellite by any means." He pointed out that a minor reconfiguration could turn the rocket into an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile: "You can guarantee there are going to be some customers there at this launch, maybe Iranians, maybe others."
A track-suited jogger was arrested in a park in Mexico City and paraded before cameras. NBC's Miami-based narcotrafficking specialist Mark Potter identified the suspect as Vicente Carrillo Leyva, a reputed leader of the Juarez Cartel, who was living in the nation's capital under an assumed name. He told us that the Juarez and Sinaloa cartels are engaged in a "vicious war" for control of trafficking routes along the Tex-Mex border. Carrillo's father, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, Potter reminded us, had run the cartel until he died "during a botched operation to alter his appearance."
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