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It is not our fight. Our troops in the region should be withdrawn. Let S. Korea and Japan defend themselves. If China won't control their puppet, then let Japan re-arm and finish off Chinese again. Think of the arms sales profits for US companies! Japan's economy would be fixed overnight.
Since when did the US need a VALID reason to get involved in the problems of another country? It's what the US lives for - sniffing out a war they can get involved in, or creating a batch of lies or excuses to start one.
I also do not think that the Administration is taking this threat lightly.
I worry more about the possibility, slight as it may be, of North Korea having slipped a nuclear warhead (suitcase bomb, or whatever you wish to call it) aboard some ship (I doubt it would be a flagged NK ship, but they may have been able to obtain a ship for just this contingency) and sail up under the Golden Gate bridge, or off the coast of San Diego, or Pearl Harbor, and set it off.
I mean, could all this recent rhetoric and events be a way of focusing our attention onto the Korean peninsular, while the real threat is getting closer, disguised (for instance) as a Japanese fishing trawler?