On the brink! What do you think about the " little fat man" in North Korea? What do you think is going to happen?

I think that he needs to be "taken out" before he starts to launch nukes. But on the other hand, there may be someone that's even worse than he is waiting in the wings.

I think between him and our own fearless leader, we are in trouble. They both remind me of little boys on the playground arguing over who has the biggest and best toys.

Both are novice new leaders. Let's hope that their second- in -line advisors have some calm and cool sense.

Petulant but dangerous. His blustering -- like Trump's -- has the potential to plunge us into a war that nobody wants.

He is the one that worries me more than any other leader. I agree with Ancient Hippy, take him out.

I think Fatboy Kim is in much bigger peril than any of us are, certainly more peril than he would admit. He may not even be aware of what he's up against, so insulated is he. There is unrest afoot in his own country as he wastes NK's very limited national treasure on exhorbitant weapons and failed rocket tests, while millions starve in poverty. 

Every move of his regime reeks of desperation, from executing all his kin and closest advisors to ceaseless sabre rattling. He is desperate to flex like one of the big boys.

I read a rather fatuous article that claimed Kim "has nothing to lose", and marveled at how backward both that logic is, and how the outside world has been led to believe his chances. He has everything to lose, and quickly will if bombs start dropping. Can we think he would NOT be targeted from the outset of any strike? 

NK has no airlift capability, a small air force and a million man army that is barely fed, rife with potential defectors, and without combat experience. They are isolated behind the biggest minefield on earth and between two bodies of water they don't control. We can hit them from Missouri, all day, and for months, if it were deemed necessary. It would be a duck shooting gallery. Kim probably wouldn't live to see it.

The biggest card Kim can play is that millions of citizens of Seoul are only a few miles across the border. Therein lies his only real threat, assuming his third rate rockets could even hit that. 

Big boys with nuclear toys both need to screw their head on right

Having been stationed in South Korea, way back when the current North Korean Leader's Grandfather was in power, it is my opinion "nothing has changed". The NK people have been brainwashed to various degrees. Those most loyal are those who hold positions of some importance and get the best available (food and material items). The vast majority are on the brink of starvation and do what they must to survive. The country would not last in an all out war. However, South Korea would have the greatest losses. The aftermath would create a whole new set of problems and issues.

I think of him a little bit as I might regard an insane (not necessarily rabid) chihuahua confined to a small room who may at any time bite me or others who tolerate him.

He may cause some of us a great deal of pain, but where's he gonna hide when we come for him?