essential point:
Aegis also did not counterfire
1. japanese “army” did not counterfire
2. japanese “navy” did not counterfire
More empty threats from the West. North Korea plays a dangerous gambit, calls the bluff and takes the house again.
If the US strategy is to wait for a regime change ala Cuba, that may or may not bring an end to the current stalemate then empty threats are at least a step up from out and out Clintonian apeasement.
Seems like a chickensh*t way to do business.