Kim Testing America's Resolve

What does a nuclear madman have to do to get America's attention? On Memorial Day, the North Koreans detonated "an underground atomic device many times more powerful than the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki," as my old colleagues at the Irish Times put it. You'd think that would rate something higher than "World News in Brief, see foot of Page 37. " But instead, Washington was consumed by the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who apparently has a "compelling personal story."