N Korea is getting serious.

[losttrail]

Who's going to pay for it? I realize Loral/General Dynamics/et al would love it, but recent wars haven't been too lucrative for the national coffers...and the piggy bank is getting kinda low.

$250,000,000 to Egypt on top of the F-16's and M1 Abrams.

$3,000,000,000,000 to Saudi Arabia every year in foreign aid

Obama phones, Obamacare, there's plenty of money. Besides, the treasury can always print more.

Obama's "budget" is going to add another $8.2 TRILLION in debt over the next 10 years (more like the next 4 years), so what's a couple hundred billion more? Besides, Obama says the debt is not a problem.

[wctriumph]

It is a diversion. They are doing this so China can see how prepared we are in the region. If NK starts something we will rush in and China will jump on Taiwan and we will be tied up in Korea and our current defender of world comu.. er, freedom will not do anything about it.

[losttrail]

It is a diversion. They are doing this so China can see how prepared we in the region. If NK starts something we will rush in and China will jump on Taiwan and we will be tied up in Korea and our current defender of world comu.. er, freedom will not do anything about it.

Very astute analisis. Definite posiibility.

[Ronin13]

It is a diversion. They are doing this so China can see how prepared we in the region. If NK starts something we will rush in and China will jump on Taiwan and we will be tied up in Korea and our current defender of world comu.. er, freedom will not do anything about it.

They don't need NK to do anything... China could do just about anything, short of invading the U.S., and this current joke of an administration wouldn't do squat.