[George W. Bush]

South Korea, Japan, Indonesia will have to go nuclear.

It's the prospect of nuclear-armed neighbors, including an insanely nuclear Kim, that China doesn't like.

Even a small number of nukes on cruise missiles spoils all the plans of a budding empire-builder. None of China's plans to dominate the region can work if they face nuclear-armed neighbors.

Personally, I'd like to see Japan and Taiwan build nukes ASAP.

[jeltz25]

If China didn't want Kim to do this, he wouldn't have, it's that simple. China and most likely Russia could put an end to Kim any time they feel like.

That they haven't and that Kim has done what he did today should tell us all something about Peking and Moscow.