What do you think about Korea's daredevil acts?

When it comes to nuclear proliferation, the five major powers at the time, France, Britain, The Soviet Union, The United States and CHINA, all agreed it would be in the world's best interest to keep nuclear weapons in as few hands as possible. Now while that was very elitist of them, it has its merits. Small countries with nothing to lose are more likely to use nuclear weapons to advance their agendas. As for North Korea specifically, what right do they have to bully South Korea and Japan with fear of imminent attack? Noone in the world is threatening North Korea's territory, just asking them to follow the same rules the rest of the world has agreed to. Continued saber-rattling and aggressive acts do not help. North Korea's actions just make the rest of the world want to spank them for misbehaving. Eventually the North Korean leadership will get to a point where nothing good can happen for their people: More aggressive sanctions or, ultimately, a war they cannot win. It is ironic that North Korea sees the UN as a US puppet when the UN is so often at odds with the US. In fact, the UN remains a weak body primarily because it cannot count on the US to back up its causes. In this case, however, with the US commitment to defending Japan and South Korea, it just comes down to North Korea versus The United States, like it or not. If China would just show some guts and initiative, and get their neighbor under control, it could save the rest of the world a lot of time and trouble.

That north koreans leader are so stubborn... They realize that their missiles activities are only makes its people suffer economically... They think that their could be the fearful country to deal with its military only.

I think they are hoping for a fight. It's almost like they are just doing this out of spite. They were told to stop, and are continuing to do what they want....almost like my 18-month-old daughter. LOL. That's what Korea is.....a rebelious toddler.

Hello Jshekhar. As a US citizen, I don't think we govern the UN...it is a world organization, and no one governs the whole world. I think our president is trying his best to use diplomacy as a first effort in dealing with Korea. But Korea, should they continue, are inviting trouble upon themselves from many sources! A good discussion, by the way :) Karen

If the USA can have missiles of mass destruction, I think anybody can have them. USA invades all the countries they want, they did it in Afghanistan, in Irak, in all latinoamerica in the 70s, Vietnam, Korea, they are always attacking countries, so I don´t trust at all the USA. The only country that has ever used a mass destruction bomb was the USA, not Korea. So I am not afraid of Korea, I think that they have the right to have missiles as USA also has that right. If everybody stopped using them it´s ok, but as long as USA has the power to attack any nation they want, the other nations have the right to defend themselves. Having mass destruction weapons is a defensive strategy against very powerful countries as USA that continuously attack countries.

good.i am a chinese,i think your argument is right for all of us in south korsa is a problem

The problem is not that the US must be obeyed, by any means. The problem is that nations throughout the world have imposed sanctions, and N. Korea won't agree. Those countries who have nuclear power are not running tests in others' faces, endangering their neighbors and whomever might be in the area. I've studied the UN quite carefully, and the US is not its puppet master. All the lead nations have equal votes and equal influence, as well as veto power. If one does not like the US, that should not affect their feelings about the UN. Whatever one's feelings about the US might be, it is not the only country with nukes, nor does the US have the most nukes -- Russia has the most. Does it matter? All it will take is one to go off, and the automatic counterstrike set up by all the lead countries, and we will no longer be part of this planet, or whatever is left of it.

I think that N. Korea is playing a very dangerous game, you don't go out and play with the big powers with nukes. What are they going to say when they are squashed? Sorry we were just kidding. To late. N. Korea has played these games for years and we have always brought them off, this time they have stepped over the line and no good can come from it. It is our fault also for always buying their nonproliferation with money etc. When a ruler is a bully paying them off will never work, they just become a bigger bully.