What is driving this now? It needs to be left alone. This is bad, look back at what was going on:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_war

That's a good sign.

Perhaps greed.

Or maybe it's just a hostage situation waiting to happen.

But, they have also watched many decades of this type of posturing. They are probably attuned to what is pro forma saber rattling and what isn't. They certainly have a front row seat.

You mean the one that yielded 6 Ktons? That was no nuke, it was a dud. A small nuke is on the order of three or more times that power. Plus, even if it did chain react -- doubtful at 6 KTons yield -- a static nuclear test does not mean that NK has a deliverable weapon, let alone on board their missiles which have a decided tendency to go awry of their target.

I am worried about the situation, but not about nukes on missiles... At least not DPRK so-called nukes on DPRK missiles. The damned things would probably hit Pyongyang before they hit Soeul, even if they're aimed at Soeul.

However, I am sure that the lights are burning bright in the White House tonight. As they should.

All it did was hit Pause on the War Player.