Time to tell Bejing we'll nuke their asses if they don't make Kimi STFU.
We don't need to preemptively strike NK. We just need to make it clear that if NK strikes South Korea, Japan or us in any military way we will nuke North Korea and deliver any and all weapons upon them that are required to annihilate the North Korean armed forces and the infrastructure that supports them entirely. China and Russia would not like this but we are still in a UN sanctioned state of war with North Korea, and after 50-60 years, plus provocation lately by NK, who could counsel further patience? We can take NK out and if provoked we will ultimately take them out after the first major move on their part against the United States, Japan or Korea. So, if the Russians and Chinese don't want the little tyke and his pissant regime fast fried, it would be in their interest to take him out, and take him out soon. They stood him up (and his papa before him) and they keep him up with economic and political viagra, but they can put him down and keep him down by withholding what he needs. Is it in Russia and China's best interests to wait for the United States to microwave the little weiner with all of the attendent implications or ramifications, or would it not be better for them to abandon him and let the country find a better way of being-in-the-world than pathologically dysfunctional for no apparent reason? Could it be that Russia and China really have no influence on the little twerp, but are embarassed to admit it? Could it be that North Korea is the ultimate godchild of communism, and an embarrasment to its godparents? Could it be that its godparents have propped up the regime for decades out of concern for what comes next, allowing it to ultimately morph to the point where they really need to be concerned that what comes next may be more dangerous for them than it is to anyone else in the region? One way or another, the North Korean regime has got to go and its (probably few) survivors given a place in the region-- hopefully a place where they can share in the prosperity that almost any government in that part of Asia other than theirs would have provided them long since, and freedom with all that it can deliver, philosophically, religiously, intellectually and economically and socially.