A Proposed Response to the North Korean Nuclear Test

Of course, we can keep on with the negotiations, but we also have to spell out our bottom line position. And so, I suggest words to this effect:

“The United States will consider the transmission of nuclear know-how from North Korea to any other party, as well as any North Korean ballistic missile attack on any nation to be an attack upon the United States of America which will result in an immediate resumption of hostilities suspended in 1953.”

This is to let the North Koreans know that our intentions are serious and also to let North Korea’s master, China, know that we’re on to their game of using North Korea as a cat’s paw to distract us. We won’t be distracted, anymore. We won’t war on North Korea immediately because of the danger those lunatics will lob a nuclear device at South Korea, Japan or even the United States, but any attempt by North Korea to use its nuclear capability to threaten in any way, shape or form the United States and its allies won’t be tolerated but will, indeed, lead to immediate war.

That said, we can try to figure out some way to bribe the NK leadership into distancing themselves from China and dismantling their nuclear program under our supervision.

UPDATE: As an aside, a proposed response to the Iranian naval aggression – announce we are sending a destroyer to sink the Iranian vessels. Let them turn tail and run for hom.