The US has a simple way to halt such tests: just shoot down North Korean missiles over international waters. That would be even legal, given the UN’s anti-proliferation policy, and North Korea would have no means of retaliating. But the West is too weak even for that.

North Korea has a serious hunger program that it refuses to address. Instead, it continues to spend resources on building a massive military and developing weapons technology. So far that seems to be a good investment. In April, while celebrating the 100th birthday of its founding father, North Korea will demonstrate to the world its advancement in rocketry and its generosity by providing Pyongyang’s favored elite with 100,000 new apartments in the new Mansudae Project.

Obama, who deems himself the final authority on dealing with a nuclear Iran, can’t even get North Korea to keep its agreements until the first food shipments arrive. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates said of dealing with North Korea that he was tired of buying the same horse twice. Lets see how often North Korea can blackmail Obama into buying the same horse. US ally South Korea has already called on the US to increase its commitments to the North Koreans, hoping that the US will be taken seriously.

Perhaps Israel and the rest of the Middle East could learn from the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

The Koreans indeed performed a second nuclear test, but with their own weapon, not an Iranian bomb. That was done specifically for Iranian observers in order to demonstrate North Korea’s technological prowess with uranium devices and obtain contracts and financing for further nuclear development, which the ayatollahs partially outsource to the communists.

The test has been common knowledge since it was performed.

The Iranian-Korean cooperation is exceptional in one regard. In most countries, nuclear weapons technology (North Korea, South Africa,Libya, Pakistan) came before there was enough material to make the weapon. But Iran already possesses plenty of yellowcake.

Something to consider: North Korea’s Kim Jong-Il was well aware that the US has never invaded a country with a nuclear deterrent. Traditionally they have tried to isolate and contain adversaries with nuclear capabilities. The US position on the Korean Peninsula has been to prop up the Kim regimes while using sanctions to isolate them. Recent events for food show us this continues. These bribes are used to provide security for South Korea and keep the DPRK focused inward. The US can’t successfully isolate Iran now. A nuclear armed Iran would be another Russia, and would spread its influence throughout the Muslim world.

Never mind that freezing wouldn’t preclude scientific research on those same topics, and that North Korea currently has no funding for experiments in the first place. Once the food is received and situation improves, nothing would prevent the communists with continuing their nuclear program.

By the way, North Korea’s semi-official spy agency, Korean Friends Association, has an office in Israel headed by anti-Zionist communist Shmuel Yerushalmi. Mind you, North Korea does not recognize Israel and refers to our country as the Zionist Regime occupying Palestine

By 2018, only 50% of the world’s cargo will go through ports equipped with these scanners, which leaves smugglers with ample routes to circumvent the controls. Besides, in many Third World ports they can bribe port officials to bypass the scan. So the system, commendable as it is, will hardly save our civilization.

This is laughable. Bush and Obama have both already tried that trick by sending aircraft carriers to Iranian and Korean shores, with no effect whatsoever. The US did not destroy Pakistani and North Korean nuclear installations, so who would believe that that behemoth would attack North Korea or China?

As Rabbi Meir Kahane used to say, a Jewish fist must be attached to a Jewish head, and the same applies to Americans. After Clinton, Bush, and Obama all refrained from bombing North Korea’s nuclear facilities, there is no way that America would attack the communists in response to whatever provocation—and the communists understand that.

The United States commonly moves its aircraft carriers to the shores of Iran and North Korea, which saber-rattling looks good in domestic media but has no effect on the ayatollahs and communists.

Worse, America’s fake support prompts South Korea to provoke hostilities. The current round occurred when the South Koreans engaged in military exercises in the disputed waters—as if they have nowhere else to train.