We are getting kind of like milquetoast US trade negotiators with the Japanese in the 1990s. We keep warning 'if you do this' 'if you do that, then...', but at the end of the day, we do nothing, they call our bluff, so the Japanese trade negotiators keep up their iron wall as they know we are made of empty threats.
Bottom line is the DPRK leadership under KJI and the Workers Party and KPA, reads the same Pentagon reports we read about the US being seriously militarily globally overstretched...and they keep kicking sand in our eye with confidence.
Which is why there is a chance that this will result in a horrendous blow-out. N. Korea keeps pushing and leave U.S. nothing but the last resort. I mean, forcing Dubya to pull the madman.
You know they are planning on a huge celebration on coming Aug. 15. I am sure they want to celebrate more than just 60th anniversary of liberation.
This could turn out to be the rerun of 1998 gala celebration after their long range missile launch.