Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader isn’t sure what we should do about North Korea and their missile testing.

Your Maximum Leader’s first reaction was well summarized by our friend Preston Taylor Holmes in his masterful post “Lick My Love Pump.” Mr. Holmes gets point for both directness of message and fun Spinal Tap reference.

Of course if you would like analysis before rushing to the conclusion that nuking North Korea is an appropriate response you might check out these post at the Marmots Hole. Links are here, here, and here.

Your Maximum Leader isn’t sure what the next step should be. We should, with our friends the Japanese, start to work with China to see if we can’t convince the Chinese to make the Nork’s life more miserable than it is. That would be the first international step. Beyond that it is hard to tell in what direction we should go.

Your Maximum Leader thinks that Prime Minister Koizumi ought to start to push for his people to remilitarize. It is inevitable that they do so, better to start as soon as possible.

Joint military exercises (of the naval sort probably) between the US and Russia (or the US and Australia) would be a propos too.

At some point a serious threat of military response probably ought to be made. But you can’t make a threat unless you plan on following through. And at this stage, your Maximum Leader doesn’t see that we can make a serious threat. Or a serious threat short of massive retaliation.

Carry on.