re: #453 lawhawk
Good morning lawhawk!

As for China’s ability to leverage and prod North Korea to do its bidding, I think the Chinese are seriously misreading their influence. It appears that they have none, and were just as surprised at the North’s nuclear tests as everyone else. The US and the Six Party talks had been relying heavily on Chinese influencing the North’s actions, but with that gone, those talks aren’t going to go anywhere good.

Couldn’t agree with you more. I honestly don’t see anyway out of this that doesn’t involve a shooting war and tens of thousand or MORE of casualties.