Hey North Korea --- at your peril

North Korea's test yesterday of a huge nuclear bomb and the testing as well of three short range missiles is alarming. Sanity does not seem to be at play here. Just as we know that some morning it is, while not likely, still possible that we could wake up and see that Israel has made a massive attack on Iranian nuclear development and missile launch sites, North Korea has now made itself officially the same type of target. With China going through the world economic crisis with some degree of stress, they will think through whether North Korea's actions could lead to a destabilization of Asia, especially related to its huge trading partners South Korea and Japan, past enmity put aside for mammon. Why would it surprise anyone, however unlikely, to wake up and learn that China has had enough and that North Korea's entire nuclear power generating and weapons processing sites, along with its missle sites no longer exist and that a part of China's massive army is staging along the North Korean border. Old Communist ties will not bind if China sees a threat to its prosperity.

If that happened, what countries in the world have leaders that would truly be upset? Iran, Cuba, Venezuela?