North Korea Threatens Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strike--what now?

According to Pyongyang, North Korea "will exercise the right to a preemptive nuclear attack to destroy the strongholds of the aggressors and to defend the supreme interests of the country," the country said in a statement carried by the state-run Korean Central News Agency.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/07/world/asia/un-north-korea-sanctions/index.html

What now?

Although Pyongyang is crazy as bat shit, this threat should not be taken lightly and a nasty letter from the United Nations is not the correct course of action.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIPSvIz9NDs


The United States needs to send a clear, slightly disabling, military message to North Korea that they crossed a red line.  If there is not a response, the North Korean rhetoric will get more belligerent. Nuclear attack on the US?  Not likely in the short term.  However, if no unilateral response is given, this behavior will get more belligerent.

North Korea is seeking unilateral attention from the United States.  I say we quietly give North Korea the attention they so desperately seek ...