The Is-Pal “peace” charade is meaningless right now.

The NKorean situation has to be what is lighting up the diplomatic phone lines.

On the peninsula itself, war could break out at any moment. It is unclear what the Korean leadership wants; what is very clear is the Chinese and Russians are displeased with North Korea and its leader. The test bomb went off 100 miles from Vladivistok, Russia’s main Pacific port.

Previous UN sanctions did not work on this regime; they are utterly lawless and their leadership’s saber rattling indicates they are willing to get what they want and threaten nuclear war to get it. If the world caves in and meets their demands, it will just encourage them. But what gives anyone the right to risk entire cities in Asia?

So what to do? Probably the only answer is prepare for the worst, use diplomacy to attempt reasoning with these maniacs and hope our boneheaded VP doesn’t say something so stupid Hiroshima gets nuked a second time.

The best plan is get US ABM capable ships surrounding North Korea and not start anything. The people best able to stand on North Korea’s windpipe are the Chinese: Beijing must be wondering if Kim’s gulag would fire a nuke at them. North Korea’s recent behavior may have convinced the Chinese the Answer is yes. Once that happens, North Korea stops being a friend and ally to become a danger and an enemy. China does not like to be threatened.

North Korea would be crazy to attack, but they are crazy and may just start a war. A war US leadership is incapable of dealing with.