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Amid all the hype over North Korea's latest actions, it is important to remember one thing: we still do not know all the facts.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, Jonah Goldberg over at the National Review decides to keep it real:

Lots of folks think this nuke thing is good news for the GOP because it puts national security in play and diminishes the Foley stuff. As political analysis, I think that's probably right. But let's keep in mind that North Korea's nuke testing constitutes a failure of US policy. We can debate the details and the extenuating circumstances, but President Bush denounced the Axis of Evil five years ago and promised that he would do everything to keep its members from getting nukes. Well, North Korea just detonated one. Iran is well on its way to getting one. And Iraq, well, that's not quite the bright spot we hoped it would be.

When you confuse campaigning for governing, you tend to confuse rhetoric for action. Bush talked tough, but he did nothing. And as a result we may now have a nuclear North Korea.

UPDATE II: More on the details of the test itself here.

UPDATE III: And then Josh Marshall provides this terrifying thought:

From the annals of catastrophic success. This graf from Glenn Kessler's piece in the Post tells the tale ...

Yet a number of senior U.S. officials have said privately that they would welcome a North Korean test, regarding it as a clarifying event that would forever end the debate within the Bush administration about whether to solve the problem through diplomacy or through tough actions designed to destabilize North Korean leader Kim Jong Il's grip on power.

Translation: The Cheneyites have always wanted a policy of force and confrontation with the NK's. They deep-sixed the Agreed Framework (which kept the plutonium out of commission from 1994-2002). Now they feel confrontation is a fait accompli.

Remind you of anything?

Got that? Some in the administration would prefer the N. Korean's complete a successful test. That way we can stop pussyfooting around and get down to business.

To war!!! To war!!!