It's time to silence this roaring mouse

Never before has so much of the world given into a leader who commands a country so incapable of mounting a sustained threat to so few people:

Of course, Pyongyang can build new reactors as it announced some time ago. Yet Kim has not made much progress, largely because he does not have the resources to continue their construction. North Korea, now in the fourth year of a downturn, has a gross domestic product so small -- about $20 billion -- that some buildings in Manhattan boast a larger economy. So let's see if the Kimster can begin building sophisticated reactors.

The one reactor that the North Koreans have is getting so old that it's becoming a Chernobyl-like danger for China. It's probably only a matter of time before North Korea becomes more of national security and public health threat than a club with which to beat South Korea and the West in the eyes of China. When that happens, North Korea will quickly fall apart because it is highly unlikely that their top brass would follow an order to use their nuclear weapons that would result in the People's Liberation Army or the United States unleashing a nuclear holocaust on their army. North Korea is so poor and agriculturally destitute, that American and South Korean forces would simply have to blockade the sea trade routes and target North Korea Army food storage sites to bring their army to brink of starvation within a few weeks of a conventional conflict.

If the world would, just for once, stop bleeding its heart to death over civilian war casualties, the threat that North Korea poses directly to the northern areas of South Korea through its conventional weapons, and to the rest of the world through its trading of nuclear technology would quickly be over. A country of 23 million supported by an economy of $20B can only exist by the cowardice or undeserved compassion of its neighbors.