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N. Korea threatens US; world anticipates missile...... How should we handle this?

How should we handle this issue?? SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea threatened Wednesday to wipe the United States off the map as Washington and its allies watched for signs the regime will launch a series of missiles in the coming days. Off China's coast, a U.S. destroyer was tailing a North Korean ship suspected of transporting illicit weapons to Myanmar in what could be the first test of U.N. sanctions passed to punish the nation for an underground nuclear test last month. The Kang Nam left the North Korean port of Nampo a week ago with the USS John S. McCain close behind. The ship, accused of transporting banned goods in the past, is believed bound for Myanmar, according to South Korean and U.S. officials. The new U.N. Security Council resolution requires member states to seek permission to inspect suspicious cargo. North Korea has said it would consider interception a declaration of war and on Wednesday accused the U.S. of seeking to provoke another Korean War. "If the U.S. imperialists start another war, the army and people of Korea will ... wipe out the aggressors on the globe once and for all," the official Korean Central News Agency said. The warning came on the eve of the 59th anniversary of the start of the three-year Korean War, which ended in a truce in 1953, not a peace treaty, leaving the peninsula in state of war. The U.S. has 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect against an outbreak of hostilities. Tensions have been high since North Korea launched a long-range rocket in April and then conducted its second underground atomic test on May 25. Reacting to U.N. condemnation of that test, North Korea walked away from nuclear disarmament talks and warned it would fire a long-range missile. North Korea has banned ships from the waters off its east coast starting Thursday through July 10 for military exercises, Japan's Coast Guard said. South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Wednesday that the North may fire a Scud missile with a range of up to 310 miles (500 kilometers) or a short-range ground-to-ship missile with a range of 100 miles (160 kilometers) during the no-sail period. A senior South Korean government official said the no-sail ban is believed connected to North Korean plans to fire short- or mid-range missiles. He spoke on condition of anonymity, citing department policy. U.S. defense and counterproliferation officials in Washington said they also expected the North to launch short- to medium-range missiles. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence. South Korea will expedite the introduction of high-tech unmanned aerial surveillance systems and "bunker-buster" bombs in response to North Korea's provocations, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper said, citing unidentified ruling party members. Meanwhile, a flurry of diplomatic efforts were under way to try getting North Korea to return to disarmament talks. Russia's top nuclear envoy, Alexei Borodavkin, said after meeting with his South Korean counterpart that Moscow is open to other formats for discussion since Pyongyang has pulled out of formal six-nation negotiations. In Beijing, top U.S. and Chinese defense officials also discussed North Korea. U.S. Defense Undersecretary Michele Flournoy was heading next to Tokyo and Seoul for talks. South Korea has proposed high-level "consultations" to discuss North Korea with the U.S., Russia, China and Japan. ___ Associated Press writers Jae-soon Chang in Seoul; Pauline Jelinek, Pamela Hess and Lolita Baldor in Washington and Min Lee in Hong Kong contributed to this report. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/as_koreas_nuclear/print

Public Comments

1. Obama will send them a nasty Youtube speech telling them to stop or else, then after North Korea shoots the missile Obama will change the subject to his girls new hamsters and the press will love it and the world will forget about Hawaii being nuked
2. Duh, a knife fight!
3. We should handle it like we did the old Soviet Union. For every missile they send, they'll get ten back. Apparently, it worked. North Korea is just a pip squeak county.
4. Obama will restate his "concern" and assure us he is "watching the situation closely".
5. Obama is playing a complicated game of diplomacy and brinksmanship in the situation - and playing it well. It is going to be tough for North Korea to play chess against Obama when they became so used to playing tic-tac-toe against Bush for 8 years.
6. I only say this in good Humor what would happen if a missle came over and it was a semi dud and only enough power to destroy Washinton D.C.
7. Obama should immediately go to North Korea, bow to Kim Jong, give him an I-Pod, tell him he is the president (as he tells us almost on a daily basis) and apologize to the citizens of North Korea for the wicked wicked acts perpetrated upon them by the United States. Bowing, scraping and groveling (and telling everybody that he is president) seems to be the modus operandi of one Barack Hussein Obama.
8. Tell N/K how sorry we are and give them a few million $$ and invite them to the white house for dinner
9. I think we right now have been preparing for North Korea and Iran. I think there is a lot we don't know about and that's how it should be. Because with the media coverage and how information goes around so quick you need to be secretive. There is no way I can sit here and believe our President would be so stupid as to ignore this. I mean I do not like him but I just don't see him selling us out like that.
10. He will send Hilliary and Joey Biden over to talk to them. We can negotiate our way out of this situation. If Hilliary and Joey were to apologize to this nut job and tell them how arrogant the US has been and how they are under a new leadership. That should make "little man" happy.
11. This country should call their bluff and if they are suspected of trying to attack this country or any of it interest abroad we should let lose all of the WMD'S that this country posses in totally destroying the North korean threat once and for all.
12. we can't do anything to handle this at the moment because if we were to drop a bomb it'd also affect the nations of Russia and China, which border the Koreas. Furthermore Korea is a joke, they dont HAVE a bomb that could even HIT the mainland, if they did it'd hit Calafornia and a lot a lot a lot of people would be killed, after that Americas military generals will overthrow the government and mess korea up bad, we'd also have civilians beating the living hell out of korean soldiers incase they decided to come here. The thing we have to worry about right now is China and Russia getting on Koreas ass because China and Russia haven't done anything wrong and it'd be wrong to include them in the bombings. No offense to pro obamas but obama isn't going to be the first to say "screw you we're gonna fight back." so once he's overthrown military will take over and after everything is settled things will go back to normal except perhaps more people will hate obama. So don't worry, Korea can't do anything.