[Pearls Before Swine]

Of course China isn't concerned. They are probably helping the program--its nuclear threat by proxy.

If Tokyo and Seoul aren't concerned, they ought to be. They shouldn't become the new Europe, expecting the US to eternally do their heavy lifting.

[virgil]

This is total appeaser-denial syndrome.

[Jeff Gordon Fan]

Pyongyang poses a real nuclear threat as yet.

So when will they be a threat?

[sport]

'Japan would never tolerate North Korea possessing nuclear arms,' said a Foreign Ministry source, ......

What can Japan do?

[Williams]

"experts?" What the hell does that mean? Rumsfeld offered no proof? The North Koreans TOLD US they have a program! The Japanese wouldn't visit if N.K. had a bomb, and they visited, so ipso facto no bomb? No one wants N.K. to have a bomb so they don't have one?????

Good God, it's like a scene in Guide For the Married Man in which the wife catches the husband with a naked woman and he just denies it until the woman gets dressed and leaves. And as for the brilliant conclusion that N.K. is trying to show it has changed, they announced this along with a statement that their promise to halt their nuclear program is dead!

[Shermy]

This guy must have interned at CNN or NY Times. that's not how the local press is talking.

[ApesForEvolution]

Sounds like Japan is now led by Chamberlain-son...