The two countries' foreign ministers condemned last week's test but said any action against North Korea had to be agreed at the United Nations, where Russia and China have the right of veto as permanent members of the Security Council.
That's lovely. Maybe they might have a talk with their little friend:
North Korea warned the top American commander in South Korea on Saturday of "miserable destruction" if the U.S. military presses ahead with routine joint drills with South Korea set to begin next month.
Pak Rim Su, chief of North Korea's military delegation to the truce village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone, sent the warning Saturday morning to Gen. James Thurman, Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency said, in a rare direct message to the U.S. commander.
Given North Korea's record of violent aggression against South Korea, we aren't the ones who should be warnted about militarizing this problem.
And given the balance of power that has developed, North Korea should be the last country to want to militarize the conflict. If there is war, the North Korean regime will be the one to face destruction.
Do the Russians and Chinese really find that outcome "miserable," too? If so, we've got bigger problems than North Korea.
