Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso (L) welcomes Christopher Hill (R), US assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, at the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, 06 February 2007. Christopher Hill has denied a Japanese press report that said he had secured a deal with North Korea in which Pyongyang had agreed to shut down a nuclear reactor in exchange for energy aid.(AFP/File/Kazuhiro Nogi)
ROFLMAO! Why would the U.S. have a hostile attitude toward a country it's been at war with for the last half-century? What could possibly make us hostile, I mean, the NoKos are a murdering, nuclear blackmailing totalitarian regime that won't stay paid off--don't everyone love them sorta down-home, friendly folks?
The opportunity to influence North Korea about their nuke program has come and past with their successful detonation of a nuke. Once a country has them, they will never give it up. Unfortunately for the USA, they have already exported the critical data to build bombs to Iran and probably Al Queda also.
Our choices:
1) Attack North Korea before they have 30 bombs and they decide to attack the South using them. This course of action would certainly ignite a larger war with China.
2) Assassinate Kim Jong-ill. Possible, but difficult. Of course their are no guarantees we'll get a better leader in his place out of that regime.
3) Naval blockade, freeze of all exports and imports going out of North Korea. This would stop the nuclear material and missle technology from being proliferated which is our main objective at this point.
Any of these options to North Korea are tantamount to us declaring war on them so if we are to do anything we should hit their fortified nuclear facilities with bunker busters and have our navy and air force ready for the counter attack into South Korea.