Are We Ignoring North Korean Trends Toward Overt Aggression?

Perhaps someone who can do something is observing.  The two recent stories out of the Korean Peninsula are disturbing.  First the missile testing of late; second the cyber attacks on government and commercial web sites. 

It appears to me that N. Korea is flexing muscles other than their obnoxious, ordinarily vile political rhetoric.  They are moving from words to actions.  Is this a foreshadowing of even more action detrimental to S. Korea and other U. S. allies in that part of the world?  Does it foreshadow more activites aimed directly at the United States?

We have a nasty habit of getting involved where we shouldn't, in local civil wars, in nations where our only motive is greed and added power.  Why not change our own trend and go after nations that are actual threats to us?   North Korea is obviously led by disfunctional leaders who care nothing of world opinion, peace or even their own citizens.  It is time to slap them to the ground and take away their nuclear toys and to cripple their cyber-toys.  And let's make it fast, good, lasting and memorable to the North Korean leadership.

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