I'm an old fashioned Cold War Liberal. Isolate the bad guys and garner the good ones. In this case we should take North Korea at its word. If it is threatening military action and war, then we should take them at their words. It is not and connot ever be in our rational self-interest to take a wait-and-see-attitude. Thugs cannot be given the benfit of the doubt. If a godammed rapist or mugger says he was going to take action would any self-respecting rational person wait to be raped or mugged, or just stand there and wait and sees what happens? Hell No!

We cannot and should not spare them the consequences of their actions. And yes, making a threat does constitute an action.  When the enemy takes advantage of your good will and your rationality and use them against you then your goodness is being used as a weapon against you. Anyone who allows his or her goodness to be used as a weapon against him is acting like a self-hating altruist. It means that you place greater premium on the words of the evil thug than you do against your own rational mind and goodwill.

What do we do?

We Nuke them. Plain and simple. America cannot stand by and adopt a wait-and-see attitude. That's called waiting for a catastrophe to happen.

Nuke them. Level the whole goddamned country. THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS CIVILIANS IN A WAR OF THIS NATURE. All of North Korea is responsible for that disgusting dictatorship. Most of the decent soldiers would have defected if given the chance. Let us do what we should have done with the Taliban: Eliminate them from the face of the earth. The casualities of war are worth the devastating price that will be paid if that country engages in nuclear war. We can act before it is too late. This is a moral imperative.