I don’t think it should be empty.
I think we should toast their launch sites as an object lesson. And if old Kim complains about it, tell him we’ve got a couple more that have his name on them.
If we launch a missile at North Korea in response to their missile launch, do other countries have the right to launch a missile at us in response to our missile launch? After we nuke Musudan-ri to keep the North Koreans in check, what happens if the Chinese nuke Omaha or San Antonio to keep the Americans in check? Or is the principle here that the biggest country in the world can do whatever it wants and the other countries are supposed to fall in line?
I think this can go now, but first: Janx, especially since you are the OP, you should be fully aware of what forum you are in. Watch your tone in future, please.
Moved from IMHO to the Pit.
You’ve gotta consider the possibility we could lob a dummy missle over there and they’d never even know. It might need to be followed with a phone call telling them what just happened and where to look for it.
Uh, you mean the “North Slope”? Sorry, but this notion of yours is just wrong, wrong, wrong.
I think that instead of spending millions to lob empty missles half-way around the world, we’ll be better off by continuing to perfect this system.
I live in England.
We like Hollywood films, US TV (especially comedies and crime programs), US fast food and US tourists.
We don’t like Guantanamo Bay, Abu Graib, the Iraq war and Americans that spout generalities like ‘everyone hates the US’.
We know the difference between the current unworthy US Government (that relies on propaganda, religious fundamentalism and big oil) and the millions of jolly decent Americans going about their daily business.
To give a simple example (especially for you 
), if Kevin Spacey wants to star in a play over here, it will be a sell-out. If Bush wants to visit, there will be polite demonstrations wherever he goes.
Oh, as for where we get our news, try looking at www.bbc.co.uk
Hey, some of us living here would prefer not having to deal with the fallout from North Korea launching a retalitory attack against what they have been fond of referring to as “the puppet regime in the South.”
Pretty much everyone except the OP is in favor of diplomatic solutions to this issue. Even President Bush is going down that road. And, apparently, even North Korea is in favor fo that. One could argue very well that’s the entire idea of their launching the thing in the first place.
That is what present American foreign policy is based on. Bush really ought to put on a supervillain costume and speak of himself in the third person, even if “Bush” isn’t as dramatic as “Doom”, for example.
Oh, for Og’s sake. Here’s Der Trihs, in Janx’s thread. Somebody hook up the gamma-ray collectors to capture the energy from their mutual annihilation. We’ll be able to put the hamsters out to pasture.