Screw China. The are not an ally to us. They have promised since the 90's to get North Korea into line.
It's a delicate situation, it can be defused, but what isn't needed is a Gung Ho Bomb's Away happening, you don't want to escalate an already delicate situation and with that risk restarting The Korean War, a war that never ended but instead hostilities were put on hold with the signing on July 27th 1953 of The Korean War Armistice Agreement until a final peaceful settlement is achieved....no final peaceful settlement has been achieved.
"Preamble
The undersigned, the Commander-in-Chief, United Nations Command, on the one hand, and the Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army and the Commander of the Chinese People's Volunteers, on the other hand, in the interest of stopping the Korean conflict, with its great toil of suffering and bloodshed on both sides, and with the objective of establishing an armistice which will insure a complete cessation of hostilities and of all acts of armed force in Korea until a final peaceful settlement is achieved, do individually, collectively, and mutually agree to accept and to be bound and governed by the conditions and terms of armistice set forth in the following articles and paragraphs, which said conditions and terms are intended to be purely military in character and to pertain solely to the belligerents in Korea"
FindLaw: Korean War Armistice Agreement: July 27, 1953
Should have ended the whole situation back then. But, North Korea wants to violate the cease fire. If someone keeps threatening to kick my ass over and over again, I'm not waiting to find out.
It's very unlikely that North Korea has anything that can be launched to hit the American mainland.
However America bombing North Korea would have potentially catastrophic consequences for both South Korea and Japan and it's the latter that should be taken into account rather than some "Dr. Strangelove" Bombs Away approach.
He hasn't demonstrated that he could even hit Japan!
His missiles would likely kill more fish than people, and that just because of the impact of the wreckage.!
"He hasn't demonstrated that he could even hit Japan!
His missiles would likely kill more fish than people, and that just because of the impact of the wreckage.!"
Well if that's the case, then there's no need for all the talk about America bombing North Korea then is there? If that's the case North Korea is of no actual threat to America.
Which brings me back to my original point in this thread, let China deal with Kim Jong-Un and North Korea, China is right on the border, North Korea cannot survive domestically without China, so China cracks the whip, they have already banned coal imports from North Korea and also put a ban on air flights from Beijing to Pyongyang.
If anything America needs to work in a diplomatic capacity with President Xi Jinping to reach a non-military intervention solution to the North Korea problem.