re: How long until we bomb North Korea?

I can understand your perspective... from over here.

Now join me... over there.

Your neighbor is a psychotic lunatic that constantly threatens our families, but you live next door to him, while I am relatively safe miles away.

I have intervened on your behalf numerous times, to keep him in check. Sometimes even when you wished I might not.

He now has dynamite, sets it off regularly, and increasingly threatens to blow all of us up, even if it means himself, too.

And while he is an isolationist/hermit, he also has powerful "friends" who find his insane antics useful at times. Because they like to keep their options open when it comes to you and me.

But maybe they are starting to realize we're tired of f-ing around with the little bastard, and that is constricting their options.

I hope they do what they usually do. Calculate risk vs reward, and shut him down for a few yrs.