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Katie Couric, anchoring from Washington for CBS, seemed to have a miscommunication with David Martin, her Pentagon correspondent, over the introduction to his report on the enforcement of United Nations sanctions against North Korea. "The communist government put out a threat to the United States," Couric asserted in her lead-in. Martin merely mentioned that Pyongyang was worried that the United States would restart the Korean War and had promised to use nuclear weapons in retaliation if attacked.
The meat of Martin's report was more quirky than terrifying--and concerned US threats not North Korean ones. The freighter Kang Nam, a "rustbucket," is plying a route through the South China Seas from North Korea to Myanmar, "hugging the coast all the way." The Pentagon expects the Kang Nam to dock in Singapore to refuel and, per the Security Council, port authorities will be allowed to inspect its cargo if it has already been challenged on the high seas. If the Pentagon wants the ship inspected, a warship will have to confront it formally first. "It is a small ship but a big deal and the decision to intercept it is going to go all the way to the President."
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