One wonders if the world is sitting there on the first-row bleachers, watching as the NK's pick on the SK's, poking here, tweaking there, waiting to provoke a response. If the US jumps in (in any role, whether advisory or actively), this will give China a gift-wrapped excuse to leap in "in defense of their little Red brother", and then we've got another war on our hands. If SK can slap back, maybe throw an unexpected uppercut on their own, China would have no cause to come in, and the whole shebang is reduced to two kids squabbling in the sandbox. That's just my take on it....that, and 27 cents will get you....er....27 cents.