I like Laura, don't get me wrong. I just don't care for her style, plus she is on early when I can't listen.
Everyone should realize that GWB's hands are tied. NK is not direct enough a threat to go to war with, and that is what we are talking.
Seoul is in range of NK's conventional artillery. Before anything else, those emplacements would have to be taken out. That means all out war, or 10's of thousands of dead S. Koreans.
The S. Koreans aren't interested in supporting anything, and Bush isn't about to shoulder the world's burden on our dime again. If dimwit fires an ICBM at us, that is another strory.