What in the hell is going on here?

This world is truly going to hell in a hand basket. In case you haven't heard North Korea has conducted it's first live nuclear test. Who knows what is going to happen now. Some say we the US should conduct an airstrike and destory all of their missle sites. However, herein lies the rub, currently China, South Korea, and Japan are at a far greater threat than the US is. If one of those countries aren't willing to take a proactive stance then we look like the lone ranger and this approach shouldn't be taken except as a last resort. Lone ranger tactics severly damages our foreign policy strategies overseas.

However, China could immediately cause a regime collapse in they would stop importing food and energy into North Korea. That would cause a huge influxe of North Koreans flooding into China. China doesn't want that to occur nor do they want a communist regime on their border collapsing. We will see if China takes a lead on this but I doubt it. Most likely it will be Japan or South Korea both of these countries we will back up 100%. The United Nations is suppose to be trying to decide how to deal with North Korea. If history tells us anything it is that the UN is absolutely ineffective.

Here is the biggest threat for the US. North Korea is more than willing to sale this technology to the highest bidder. If they sale it to Iran or a rogue terrorist group then it's possible that bomb could end up getting smuggled into the US. Currently North Korea have not built a missle that could reach the states and we aren't sure they even have the technology to attach it as a warhead on a long range missle even if they could build the missle. If we or another country does not take the lead in stopping the further progression of North Korea's nuclear technology then they will continue to prefect this technology and eventually create a missle that can hit us.

God bless us...