Korean War II? N. Korea threatens S. Korea with military action

Lets look at the Korean culture problem related to a honor code of sorts.

The world threatens and belittles North Korea, North Korea responds arrogantly to keep face.

Yes this factor is leading to a fresh war between north and South Korea and its time to stand back and negociate in a very different way. Possible to ask North Korea how it can stop this problem with the outside world.   

I think It wont Happen again.

Something is very odd about all this. 

They are surrounded by not one ally. I worry they are in cahoots with another  country secretly, knowing that the United States is already at their limit militarily and financially. To provoke a war would be crazy to think they could accomplish anything all by themselves.

It is like a chess game with weapons in the world today.

It just doesn't make sense.

I thought there was a Partial Ban Treaty, however, which still allowed some countries to detonate underground bombs for testing. If Pakistan and India can have nuclear weapons, and other countries, I can understand why Korea should think they should have them also.

I believe it should be that NO country have them, but to tell a few that they can't while others have them, is sort of dominating. And not fair, really.

I can understand them but I don't agree with anyone having nuclear weapons.

Right now we are leaving Iraq and Afghanistan depleted uranium from our weapons for generations to be exposed to and to have to deal with.

The human race seems to be on a race for self-destruction. It's just insanity on a grand scale.

I hope this tension settles down. No more warfare please.

What will the UN do?   Can the Security Council agree? Read a CBC TV story here.

N. Korea has drawn a line in the sand and it's up to us to start testing them! They keep testing us, and making us look like fools. I say we stop the next ship leaving or arriving N. K. and search it. This is never going to stop. Appeasement doesn't work and because of it 50m people died in WW2. The LAST thing N. Korea wants is a war with the entire west. They are already broke and while they have a decent millitary, they can't compete with the rest of the world and I think they know it and they aren't going to attack us. So lets go and start searching ships.

China is the only country that can reign in North Korean saber rattling for attention.  Although China once urged calm in previous NK nuclear tests.  China has changed its tune on Monday. 

In the past, it was a good-cop-and-bad-cop routine between the US and China's reactions. This time, China is exercising its newly found international clout by speaking out more, and specifically, on a geopolitical level to express its displeasure of NK's provocative actions. 

China has a lot to lose economically, not to mention the possibility of having millions of starving North Koreans crossing over to China, if NK is allowed to pursue its defiant actions and words. 

This is not looking good. I am hearing KBS World on my shortwave radio as to what is happening.

At the present time, South Korea has raised its alert level for North Korea. US Troops in South Korea have been placed on alert.

N.Korea is just bluffing just watch, it will settle down on its own. but i also believe appeasement doesnt work they have been blackmailing the world for decades i say destroy their missile and nuclear sites and let them rush us in the parallel i believe S.Korea has enough economic and technological advantage to win the ground war themselves.