Just like a schoolyard brawl put up by the top bully,- only with more dire consequences -North Korean has started to kick sand in the face of it's global neighbors . And, as fate would have it we friends with those neighbors, which means if necessary we come to their aid.
North Korean is a client state of China and does nothing without their knowledge and arguably without their permission. So what we have is a "battle by proxy" between the United States and China .
Not only are we at war with global radicalized Islamic terrorism, we are now in a proxy war on a second front in Asia. A proxy war with a tepid creditor, afraid that we (as a nation) will default on our financial obligations to them or at least afraid that we will treat them like we have treated the bond holders of the once venerable General Motors.
There will be a point where trying to force payment from a weakened former capitalist country may become more certain than awaiting payment from same with a 80% GDP going just to cover the debt.
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