"On a side note. If North Korea (a nation possessing nuclear weapons by its own admission) should launch some "test" missle into the Western Hemisphere... I would detonate on Pyong Yang before it got wherever it was going..."
I'd wait for it to hit first. That way if it was a nuke, a formal declaration of war could be made followed by carpet bombing with neutron weapons until there is not a single living thing within NK borders. I call it the YAD policy. Your Assured Destruction. Then you walk in after the radiation disperses, lower all the NK flags (putting up US flags into their place), and bury all the corpses in mass graves. Then contact Century 21.
I agree wholeheartedly! We would not need to wait for it to hit, just calculate its trajectory and point of impact (NORAD has computers that do this).
North Korea canot be trusted, Kim Jong Il is a brat who has never shown any restraint, from kidnapping and actress, blowing up airliners, bombings, assassinations. We should never tolerate their being in a position to fire an ICBM, if we see preparations for a test launch we should send in cruise missiles. If they want to escalate, then we escalate all the way. No need to wipe out the entire population, but Pyongyang should be annihilated. he has about 200,000 people in forced labor camps, they can be the core of a new state. They will be ruthless in wiping out the communists, like the Kurds in Iraq would be if we let them go after Baathists, like in Mosul.