The US and NK will not go to war anytime soon. The US needs to determine that NK does *not* have Nuclear weapons (right now we don't have proof they have them, just threats) before we fight them.

Then, even if NK ended up NOT having Nuclear Weapons, we would still probably not go to war with them just because they are too close to South Korea. If we attacked NK, they would immediatly kill 1,000,000+ South Korean's from the Demilitarized Zone, just with artillary and rockets; if they had a nuke it'd be even worse.

Sure, in the end, North Korea would be obliterated; but we'd lose to many innocents and friendly's (counting South Korea as friendly's) just by starting the issue.

There's a better way of handling North Korea, mainly because North Korea is so isolated from the rest of the world... you ignore them, as cruel as this sounds, you ignore them and let them starve to death and let their government crumble.

They have no aid from any countries, virtually no trade with them, and we're constistantly making it harder on them to continue the little amounts they do, since it's usually weapons anyway. No one likes them, and no one has any problem with sanctioning them to death; which is exactly what's happening. This way North Korea falls, reforms on it's own, and no innocents (except those in North Korea) are killed.

That sounds brutal, but look at the alternative. War, where North Korea obliterates part of South Korea, killing millions; and the consequential American strike that destroys all or most of North Korea, killing millions more.

So yeah, we'll just sit on our hands, call their bluff; and let them starve to death.