Which the US has thousands of.

And we aren't shooting any over Japan? What's wrong with us?

The US launched 2 nukes on Japan, if I recall correctly.

Retaliation to an attack, and then we decided it was overkill if I remember correctly.

Yeah, and I'm saying we shouldn't wait until afterwards this time to decide that what we did was overkill.

Stoping a tyrant from getting a nuke is not overkill.

So any response can be justifiable as long as he doesn't get nukes?

China and Russia don't want to hurt N. Korea too bad because they are technically allies, but even moreso, they don't want a new, Western Friendly North Korea on their doorstep. The best (of all terrible solutions) that I see is ousting the current gov't, then letting China help put a new gov't in place there. Hopefully that would keep China and Russia happy, and Japan, S. Korea, and the US could all breath easier knowing there isn't a psychotic threatening to nuke them.

It's also going to take a multi nation humanitarian effort - people in N. Korea are already starving, and it will only get worse if there is an attack.

But I don't know all the details, and I'm sure this isn't all that great of a plan, either.

Do you think the response would have to be all that big to deal with the threat? I don't.

Well, if the response wouldn't have to be all that big, that must mean the threat isn't all that big.