North Korea: Whatever plan the US has to rein in Kim's nuclear ambitions, it isn't working

Boxer Mike Tyson had a famous pronouncing: "all of us has a plan 'til they get punched within the mouth."

North Korea's pugnacious tyrant, Kim Jong-un, has simply punched the sector inside the mouth… once more.

anything plan the usa has — or has had — virtually it isn't always running.

another more eloquent writer Thucydides, four hundred years before Christ, wrote: "The sturdy do what they may at the same time as the weak go through as they need to."

North Korea is in so many respects a vulnerable state — a populace of about 20 million, impoverished, secretive — yet it's far at the verge of being a totally fledged nuclear weapons state.

The ruling Kim family has seen how weak nations go through. For years they have been decided to get away that fate.

In 2005, all through nuclear negotiations with the united states and other nations, a North Korean envoy is said to have stated: