Wednesday's reported successful missile launch took the world by surprise when North Korea put a satelitte into space. On Monday, it was reported that the Eastern Asian country had removed it missile from its launch pad and that country announced that it had extended its launch window in order to repair technical problems.
Small vessels in Alaska’s fishing fleet are being subjected to an expensive and poorly devised program for monitoring their take of groundfish and a delay in implementation is needed, according to a letter sent by Alaska’s Congressional delegation today to Acting Secretary Rebecca Blank of the Department of Commerce.
Opportunities for the export of large quantities of natural gas to Asia were discussed at a meeting between Alaska's Governor Parnell and the Chief Executive Officer and President of Korea Gas Corp. (KOGAS).