Bump.. This shlt stain over there keeps testing these missiles and we are just watching. Should the world (and us) just sit here and wait until he does something? Or is he just a phony launching these things into the ocean but has no intentions on actually firing them towards land? Aren't they basically sanctioned into oblivion as it is? What are more sanctions going to do? You can't blame the people that are starving, etc from the sanctions from being ruled by a psycho..
What exact could anyone do? Don't tell me China can cut off North Korea completely unless the US is willing to take in millions of refugees from North Korea in case all hell break lose and half of North Korea runs to China.
Not an expert by any means, but it seems like there isn't much we can do militarily, unless we are ok with N. Korea launching conventional weapons into S. Korea at the first overt sign of aggression.
Learn to live with a nuclear armed North Korea. What else can you do? There's no way the Kim regime is willing to give up their nukes, increased sanctions are useless and there are no realistic military option. The politicians will probably build more useless anti ballistic defense systems like THAAD to placate the masses but will provide no real protection.
China can fix this. They choose not to. What will Trump do? If it looks like the Russian thing will take down Trump, Trump may very well start a war. He is that stupid.
Here's Mr. Average sitting in his armchair, he's got his beer in one hand he's got his channel changer in the other wife's in the kitchen with the 2.2 kids God's in his heaven and all is RIGHT with the world. He doesn't want to hear about North Korea he VOTED for Reagan because it's time to get tough with those Russians. "My dad can lick your dad" and Meanwhile we have Mitsubishi plants in Toldeo, we've got crack in our playgrounds and Miss America is taking off her clothes! Now, its that Rambo mentality, one hand washes the other but when the band strikes up its Rally 'Round the Flag Boys and Hail to the Chief and God Bless America...and we KNOW that now the Steelers game is on and lo and behold the guy sitting there with a channel changer and he isn't so Young anymore and WE'VE GOT A NEW PRESIDENT in the White House and this guy is playing with a different deck of cards! And he's barely keeping his head above water and he's suddenly starting to feel the pinch just like everybody else. The thing is, the Senators, for example, who had a little bit too much at the three martini lunch and start shooting off their mouth we've got to realize that sooner or later its all gonna come down and spomebodies gonna say HEY lets blame it all on the North Koreans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/28/world/asia/north-korea-ballistic-missile.html North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday that, for the first time, appeared capable of reaching the West Coast of the United States, according to experts — a milestone that American presidents have long declared the United States could not tolerate. The launch, the second of an intercontinental missile in 24 days, did not answer the question of whether the North has mastered all the technologies necessary to deliver a nuclear weapon to targets in the lower 48 states. But just a few days ago, the Defense Intelligence Agency warned the Trump administration that the North would probably be able to do so within a year, and Friday’s test left little doubt that Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, is speeding toward that goal. The missile launched on Friday remained aloft for roughly 47 minutes, according to American, South Korean and Japanese officials, following a steep trajectory that took it roughly 2,300 miles into space. It then turned and arced sharply down into the sea near the northernmost Japanese island, Hokkaido.
