One Step Too Far?

[youngmafbog]

It has to be close to the time we (the rest of the World) do something.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4831230/North-Korea-launches-missile-Japan.html

[mikey4444]

YMB..... They could have shot the missile down but would that just have escalated the situation ?

Difficult call for the Japanese, I will agree.

[murraymints]

scary !

[mikey4444]

China holds the key here. Ding Dang Dong won't listen to anybody else.

[rockyracoon]

To quote REM "It's the end of the world as we know it"

The powers that be have some horrible decisions to make, but they need to make them before that nutter blows up half of Asia.

[waterboatman]

They would have been justified mikey. It might have made the lunatic think again. He's just seeing what he can get away with.

[mikey4444]

Boaty....I wish I had your confidence that DDD would react and back down !

He's far too unpredictable for my liking.

[ummmm]

He's getting scarier...

Mikey - why can't you use his name?

[albaqwerty]

Heard on the BBC news earlier, that there are 2 possible answers to why Japan didn't shoot it down..
1) they knew it was going over
2) they don't want to show their hand too early.

Something has to be done, but I have no idea what.

[mikey4444]

Ummm....I didn't invent this name, but it seems to fit him to a T. He is a ridiculous and ludicrous figure.

I don't think its unreasonable to extract the urine.

[murraymints]

whatever moniker is assigned really does not matter..he is dangerous and deranged..needs to be "taken out"

[Prudie]

He may well be ludicrous and ridiculous but that's an irrelevance - the world needs to worry as he's effing dangerous

[mikey4444]

Prudie....I think everybody knows that already !

[gulliver1]

How about squirting him with DDT, then Mikey.

[ChillDoubt]

It's time for The Don to use the big stick and give him the proverbial bloody nose.
Bullies only understand one course of action....time he was given a beating on the schoolyard.

[jim360]

Any suggestions on how to achieve without endangering South Koreans, and without angering China?

No military solution is possible as long as the Chinese government supports North Korea (or refuses to condemn them in the same terms that the rest of the world does), which is a disgraceful position to take anyway but that's the real stumbling block.

[ChillDoubt]

Better an angry China than a missile-struck Japan.
The Chinese have warned him about his behaviour for long enough, with little or no obvious effect.
As for the South Koreans they've lived in the shadow of it for so long it's not uppermost in their minds, they just get on with it.

[ludwig]

// China holds the key here. Ding Dang Dong won't listen to anybody else. //

I don't think he's even listening to them at the moment.

[youngmafbog]

The problem is jim this will end in some sort of Military action, it is far too late for diplomacy and as we have seen with others, like Hitler, they do not listen to reason ever.

However it starts South Korea will cop it, I think thye have known this for a very long time. China may get angry but they have tied their economy to the West far too much now so i think a lot would be rhetoric and what was done after TJU and his cronies were removed. Clearly the best situation all round is to remove the KJU regime and then allow China to rebuild NK as a buffer state (just not another rogue one). I'm sure diplomats could come up with something similar that the Chinese would agree behind close doors whilst sounding off their 'disapproval'

[Zacs-Master]

So, going back to the OP, what's the 'something' the rest of the world should do?

[Khandro]

The Telegraph says, "The missile later broke into three pieces and landed in the sea. It flew for around 1,700 miles, reaching a maximum altitude of 350 miles........"
350 miles high, can that be a fact?