American policy makers must also make it clear to the Chinese and the Russians that although our quarrel is not with them we will react to North Korea's belligerance and threat with an immediate response. This rogue, starve the people nation must now feel the brunt of a response should they attack this country or any of our allies. The President must realize that he has the support from most Americans to deal with these threats and actions. When it comes to an attack on this land I will support the President of the United States in responding to these irrational threats and actions. The United States must take the threats of North Korea seriously. This rogue, isolated and war threatening regime will attack our nation with whatever is available to them. We need to prepare to respond overwhelmingly to them. We must destroy their military resources totally. We dare not fail to respond to their attack plans with massive force. They have laid the track for their total decimation due to their isolation. Dr. Alan Phillips, Sr.

THE ECONOMIST, March 7, 2013 We hear again from North Korea. Most observers conclude the vociferous rhetoric to be a type of posturing, hyperbole personified by their leader. I do not. I agree with the administration that the most recent words are not suited to basketball diplomacy. The time has come to fully inform the North Koreans that the U.S. is capable of massive premption of them at any indication of a launch coming toward America's homeland. Dennis Rodman is not a conduit for American foreign policy toward any nation. Foreign policy comes from the channels of the State Department, Congress, and ultimately the presidency. We have such foreign policy leaders already in place and conveying the fate of this rogue nation if they miscalculate. The videos of this isolated regime threatening the U.S. is pathetic. Tubes and the missiles from just one nuclear American submarine could make their broken cease fire a permanent fixture on the peninsula. The North Korean leaders remain totally self isolated from reality making outlandish threats. Their threats and boasts will become the pillars of their own peril. Dr. Alan G. Phillips, Sr. Ed.D.