1. American "anything-for-a-buck" companies were trying to sell nuclear equipment to the North Koreans as recently as a year ago.
2. North Korea is responding to an oil embargo by the west.
3. If China is behind all this, why are Chinese prison-labor products flooding into American stores?
Yes, North Korea is a horribly backwards, sick Stalinist nation, but people had better get their facts straight before missiles start flying all over Asia.
The answer to this one is simple. China likes the Yankee cash and it undermines our economy.
No oil embargo. We are no longer supplying them with free oil. We are not keeping them from buying their own oil. BIG DIFFERENCE.