Goofy and reckless, is how North Korea appears before the world, but they have no intellectual capacity to realize it. Isolation, being in your own hurt locker a long time apparently changes your perspective.
A Guardian headline reads: “North Korea warns embassies over safety following missile threat
Pyongyang authorities have advised foreign officials to leave the capital following the positioning of missiles on the east coast.”
Apparently in the “pretend war” with the U.S., North Korea want foreign embassies including Britain and Russia, to know that it cannot guarantee their safety in the presence of an immanent threat of attack from the U.S. The big talk and missile launching is coming from one direction, North Korea.
To be certain, if one of their missiles goes off course and threatens allies or Guam, the U.S. and allies will respond by removing the threat. After that, calm assessment will be made of the situation before next steps.
Better late than never, Secretary of State Kerry is on his way to China.
“Meanwhile Washington announced fresh moves to seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis, revealing that it had phoned officials in Beijing to ask them to press Pyongyang to tone down its rhetoric.
The secretary of state, John Kerry, is due to meet his Chinese counterpart in Beijing on a scheduled visit to Asia. The South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, is also due to meet Barack Obama in the US for talks next week.
The state department said it was optimistic that the international alliance calling on the North to abandon its nuclear weapons programme would hold firm and "recognise the threat we share is common and that we are stronger if we work together".
Nuland urged Pyongyang to return to the international community which would secure an end to sanctions. "This does not have to get hotter," she said. "They just have to comply with their international obligations."
Officials in Washington have dismissed the North's most serious threat, of a nuclear strike against the US, as bluster by the North's leader, Kim Jong-un.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/05/north-korea-missiles-embassy-threats
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