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Gatorade, Japan and China are pretty shaky. The new PM has recently flown to China and South Korea in an effort to mend relations. It will take time and lot of effort on the Japanese to get relations up.
Bottom line: Asia (China, the Koreas at the top of the list), does not want to see a militarily active Japan, especially in the neighborhood.
Russia's military is a joke at the moment and s Korea actually cares about its bretheren in N K is hesitant to engage in a conflict where casualties will most certainly be very high. NK doesn't care about casualties and would in fact, blame everyone else for a war that they started. Perfect excuse for lil' Kim: "They made me start the war!"
I thought there were sanctions now on NK and it's not working.
Edit: Ok I see what you are saying RB. You mean UN sanctions after the US ones. That seems like a logical place to start, though they should have enacted sanctions a long time ago. I don't think there is too much wiggle room anymore as their economy is such shit I don't think UN sanctions will do much to help. China has to cut off aid. ALL aid to NK or at least threaten to cut off aid credibly.
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