In parts of this country the collection of rain water is unlawful, even if it is from off of your own roof. Its nice to know that in some parts of the world people can have air space.

office. This nonsense has been going on for six decades, it's insane. Freeing 25 million North Koreans from their living hell, as well as eliminating a deadly threat to the United States and our allies in that region, would be a crowning achievement.

...in order to free the rest? Because that feels like the only way you are going to get the outcome you are looking for using US policy.

The only way that I can see a non-bloody change would be a coup, followed by a sane military junta, and a transition to a unified Korea, but I don't see how the US could pull that off.

resolve this problem though.

Which is why the US under Obama is NOT going to unite Korea.

A Cruz administration? Not so much...

would hand us our ass in a conventional theater.
They have entire cities buried so deep in mountains that ground penetrating nukes would not touch them.
Be careful what you wish for. Would you be okay with half a million or a million US casualties in such an adventure?

Do you have any idea what Seoul would look like after just one day of shelling?
Do you know anyone in South Korea. Chances are if you do now. You would not after such an excellent adventure.

"North Korea would hand us our ass in a conventional theater." That was hilarious!

...Now you are correct about Seoul, South Korea but the other is ridiculous! North Korea has a Soviet era army & anything they have underground would remain permanently there if war actually broke out. Geez.

This launch will only increase the need for the rest of the world to do something about North-Korea. As long as North-Korea is still contained threat-wise, it's a problem that can be managed, and perhaps a solution can be found. But if North-Korea breaks the containment and becomes a serious threat to the whole world - boy, do we have a problem...

Didn't Bernie Sanders say he was most concerned about North Korea in the debate and Hillary answered that she was most concerned about Russia?