[IronJack]

If -- and that's a big IF, considering their history -- the norks have any missile capable of getting any higher than the gantry, and IF they have a true nuclear payload they can pack, and IF they can somehow coax their coal-fired rocket to reach the continental US, they would unleash a shyte-storm that would turn their backward hellhole into a glow-in-the-dark backward hellhole. And NOBODY would stand in our way. It would be impossible to defend the use of nuclear weapons against another nation that has not attacked you.

And IF nork has any of those capabilities, I'm guessing it's one and done. They might manage to deliver one, which would exhaust not only their supply but our -- and the world's -- patience. They'd be signing their own death warrant.

[Eleutheria5]

Little Kimmy’s crazy like a fox, though. He’s not going to launch a nuke at the US, just act crazy enough so people think he’ll do it, then extort concessions, money, a diplomatic “reset,” or some damned thing or other, in exchange for a promise to give up his nuke and missile program, which he’ll then cheat on so he’ll have something for the next round of extortion. And this will be his trade from hereon in. “Gimme gimme gimme! And I be good. So ronery.” He needs to be slapped upside his head by both the US and China.