Looks as if N. Korea has manufactured a crisis so they can do a little posturing.

Kim must be out of food for the peasants, so he needs to rattle his saber again.

I think it's Kim's son who is most likely behind this. Kim himself is near death and junior is chompin' at the bit to take over the reins and assert a bit of his own "power."

Like I said earlier, North Korea concerns me more than any other possible threat, and they have for many years.

Hmmm, I read a book about 20 years ago that had a title of the latitude of the SK/NK border Yankee. The military types should maybe review it and brush up on how to fight this war. My recollection is that there was a logistical problem getting critical supplies from somewhere like Kansas over to SK. And that was without simultaneous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

If it weren't for pssing off China, a nukes first approach that could just make NK disappear would be so appealing. I mean, wouldn't China and SK both be better off without a NK? And the area would still be a buffer zone insulating China from the dreaded effects of American and SK democracy and pluralism.

Sg