[Wayne Maybury]

For those of you that want Obama to strike hard at North Korea, are you willing to start an all out confrontation with China as well? Let's face it, the US, or anyone else, cannot do much about NK without having China fully on board. As long as China protects NK, the rest of the world must go along for the ride.

If NK were to do something really stupid like directing a missile at Japan or North America, then the rules of the game would change. NK would then have taken, what amounts to an act of war and retaliation could be justified. I doubt that even China would protect them in that case. Until then the world will continue to tell NK to stop being such a bad boy, in very correct, diplomatic terms.

Wayne