Fiddle faster, spanky

After years of "lucide" handling with kid gloves at the urging of others, we find more cheap bomb-throwing by way of press release from Dr. No's torture kindom, with probably more to come.

Past encouragement and lack of vigilence finally come to their conclusion. Europeans were shortsighted enough to accept it, and eat up the hermit kingdom's propaganda.

While the DPRK is helping others still to burn the house down, we see history repeating itself.

The Weekly Standard summed it up quite some time ago:

So far, our would-be friends are getting at best a mixed grade. It is striking that while China, Russia, France, and the rest insist that America act multilaterally in the Middle East, they insist on U.S. unilateralism when it comes to North Korea. The United States would love to get cooperation from other countries to punish North Korea for walking away from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The U.N. refused to oblige.

Meanwhile Euros are worried about palliatives for their own anxieties.