THE ECONOMIST, March 7, 2013 We hear again from North Korea. Most observers conclude the vociferous rhetoric to be a type of posturing, hyperbole personified by their leader. I do not. I agree with the administration that the most recent words are not suited to basketball diplomacy. The time has come to fully inform the North Koreans that the U.S. is capable of massive premption of them at any indication of a launch coming toward America's homeland. Dennis Rodman is not a conduit for American foreign policy toward any nation. Foreign policy comes from the channels of the State Department, Congress, and ultimately the presidency. We have such foreign policy leaders already in place and conveying the fate of this rogue nation if they miscalculate. The videos of this isolated regime threatening the U.S. is pathetic. Tubes and the missiles from just one nuclear American submarine could make their broken cease fire a permanent fixture on the peninsula. The North Korean leaders remain totally self isolated from reality making outlandish threats. Their threats and boasts will become the pillars of their own peril. Dr. Alan G. Phillips, Sr. Ed.D.