Missile Test & U.S. Response to N. Korea

[Boris]

I say Boss Tweed is correct. Kim Jong Il has no intention of launching nuclear weapons at the United States. If he did so, our ABMs could shoot them down (in theory) and the combined retaliation from the United States, the United Nations, South Korea, and Japan would reduce North Korea into rubble.

My biggest fear is that North Korea could give nuclear weapons to terrorists. Therefore, if N. Korea tests a missile, we should retaliate against North Korean missile sites with airstrikes (similar to Iraq in 1998 for violation of UN resolutions).

North Korea's only retaliatory option would be against South Korea, and if they crossed the demilitarized zone, they'd bring in the entire United Nations and initiate a full-scale war, which they'd ultimately lose.

[Boris]

One of the short range missiles was aimed in the general direction of Japan; the other toward Russia.

The NK's might have destroyed the missile because it was heading for its own territory.

Are these people f'ing insane? Do they realize what the Russian retaliation would be if an ICBM hit their territory?