User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/Discussion Blog: North Korea/@comment-3984166-20130330051342

I say, who cares? The cup is already full. Let's look on the brightside. It could be raining cats and dogs.

No in all seriously, the world is too globalized for these threats to be taken seriously. NK gets most of its importants from China. China is a huge regional power if not a super power and is a huge trading partner with the west, NK wouldn't do that. Also the US has a large amount of troops stationed in Asia. Russia, who is another regional power ( and tends to play both sides I've come to think ) would also play both sides again.. not to mention the sanctions NK already gets. Its just too interlocked for this to happen.