Shrug

Shrug?! They're right next door to South Korea! Japan is a short ways across the water! Kim Jung-un may be deluded enough to use it and risk nuclear world war. After all, what can we do? What can we even do now?

I guess we'd break the truce and bomb the hell out of them - and their civilians - before they could put a warhead on a missile.

If nothing else, it'll force a last-minute revision of Obama's speech.

On the same day that the Pope abdicates and the Huskies lose to USC? And we're supposed to believe it's a coincidence?

This is a great justification for 1st strike.

Let's launch and clean up the mess and get those two Koreas back together where they belong.

Also, for anyone else who thinks sitting at home and arguing on the Internet is more fun than going to bars or dancing or all that crap, here we are discussing transit in Stockholm vs. Seattle:

http://seattletransitblog.com/2013/02/10…

Yeah, it's a barn burner!

Umm Huskies losing is not shocking they are bad this year

This would be more threatening if they could throw it more than a hundred yards. Country most likely to accidentally nuke itself.

7: I'm sure the South is reassured about that good news.

7: I don't think that is going to make South Korea (or China & Japan) feel any better.

Dammit. Apologies for the double post.

Gee, who could ever have anticipated that nations we don't support might some day wield the most powerful weapon of mass destruction we ever unleashed?

Gee, who could ever anticipate that enemy nations might some day use our own technology against us?

Can you win an arms race with yourself?

Is that what the future has in store -- perpetual escalation of destructive capacity? What would "victory" look like in that scenario?

Perhaps we should pull an Osama and simply assassinate every figurehead in NK?

@13: Preemptive assassination?

How could it possibly go wrong?

Clearly they built it to bomb the Vatican and fulfill the prophecy

@15: Careful with that conspiracy, Mr. Reed.

@4, Sure, preemptive war. That's worked so well in the past why not try again?

To those proposing attacking NK, you might want to consider the fact that Seoul is right near the NK border. Well within artillery range. If we start bombing NK they can level Seoul in minutes.

https://maps.google.com/maps?q=seoul+sk&…

Before making preemptive decisions about what to do in someone else's country consider how you would feel if we were talking about a country within artillery range of Washington DC, or Seattle.

@12 nice to see you have so much faith in your masters.
We do it now or we do it later when China and Russia are stronger and Iran and N Korea have delevoped small enough nukes to smuggle into our cities.

NK has the bomb? Jeesh, you almost freaked me out. Imagine if Russia or China had the bomb? Then I'd really worry. We'd have to bomb those guys immediately.

Despite appearances, this has nothing to do with us. If Kim Jong-un can't prove to his generals that he is fully committed to maintaining the status quo, how long do you think he'd last? About five minutes.

Even the North Korean elite know you can't enjoy Hennessey cognac when your city has been obliterated by a Trident missile.

Time to send in the marionette strike force.