There is plenty of evidence beyond the pandering of the main stream media. For one, this was an action condemned by the overall international community, including Taiwan, Japan, China, Australia, many other UN member states as well as the UN itself, and of course South Korea. There is no debate (from either side) that North Korea is attempting to develop nuclear weapons systems, and as such violated international agreements with this test. North Korea's forward progress in nuclear weapons is evidenced by their previous attempted launch which was followed by a nuclear weapon test, their second of such. They are also still officially at war with South Korea, and bombarded South Korean territory with artillery shells in 2010. So we're talking about a small totalitarian nation whose economy relies heavily on weapons sales to countries such as Iran and Libya, currently at war, currently testing nuclear weapons, with a history of using military threat to gain concessions and violating international agreements left and right. You think this country is trying to develop a space program?? How about they feed their citizen-slaves instead? Oh that's right, because they rest their international reputation on their military strength.