You made a rather simplistic statement earlier. I wasn't sure if you were unconcerned about those lives, or ignorant of their peril. What you have posted since makes clear that your post was merely intended to emphasize the relative danger Kim is in compared to us. I apologize if my response seemed patronizing--I thought it a point that needed to be made in the event you WERE unaware or unconcerned about these people.
Like others have mentioned, I'm not totally convinced that this isn't just a rouse by the Chinese, seeing if they can bait us into something, or check out our capabilities in responding to a NK missile launch, and then respond publicly, "Gaw-ree, we no be-weev he did dat!" I'd be surprised if in 30 years, there wasn't a military conflict of some sort between the U.S. and China. I think it will be over Taiwan instead of North Korea. It behooves the Chinese to have N.K. there so they don't have U.S. troops right on their border there.
That makes Afghanistan kinda interesting. There iis that tiny little sliver in the NE of Afghanistan that borders far Western China. I wonder how close to that border our troops have come. It would be the first time U.S. troops bordered Chinese troops since the Korean War, and that was when they were shooting at each other. Kinda eerie.