I think the best thing to do is what the Chinese suggest... for South Korea to talk to North Korea. Same with Syria...talk. Negotiate. Talk more. Talk is good. Will the US ever talk with the Syrian Govt? No. Will the Syrian Govt be willing to talk with the US? Absolutely. Will the US ever talk with the sovereign government of North Korea? No. Will the North Korean Govt choose to talk with the USA? Absolutely. Pride can be a form of an all encompassing Mania...and we do know that, from biblical times, it goeth before a fall. Why choose to fall? Talk, negotiate, be frustrated, fail, be angry, talk again, succeed, negotiate again...much cheaper than war and millions less die. Neither Syria or North Korea present a real threat to life on earth even with weapons of mass destruction. Neither present any threat to the USA...Everyone knows that. The USA is not Asia, Asia is Asia. Asia has to solve the problems of Asia. America is thousands and thousands of miles away, a very foreign country with very strange ideas about self-importance. The Korean War, the War on Vietnam...all for what? The massive bombings of whole societies in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia...for what outcome? Go on home, US soldiers, go on home, have you got no fucking home of your own? Cut loose on one another in a school, or a church or a shopping centre...that's the kind of war you understand and respect and nurture within yourself. Do it to yourself, not others. Do a good job of it. Win your wars at home.