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Rodong or Nodong?

By The Daily Dish

Jul 5 2006, 3:24 AM ET

The NYT has a wonderful pargraph in its print edition today:

The other missiles that the North fired appeared to be a mix of short-range Nodong missiles, of the kind the North has sold to Iran, Pakistan and other nations.

In the online edition, the missiles are now called Rodong. But the 620-mile Nodong clearly exists. Let us now praise silly names for weapons and the fact that missiles of mass murderers manage to live up to them.



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