Don't blame the country because most of the time its just one f***ed up asshole that's f***ing everything up. NK's leaders don't care what happens to there people and if they go down they want to take a lot of people with them.
Don't worry, the US wont attack North Korea. Bush won't have that kind of support needed to take down a country as powerfull as them. In the end NK will promise to shut down there nuclear weapons program, and the US (and UN) will buy them off in some way.
tell me that you didnt just say that north korea was a powerful country.......have you ever been over that way?????? theres nothing that powerful about them.. and we dont need to worry about taking them down the south koreans and japan wont let the north koreans get out of control.. they will squash them like little ants if they try..............
Obviously you don't know that much about there military, not only do they have a Nuclear Program, but they also have a very respectable Biological and Chemical weapon stockpile. There most powerful weapon is there large supply short range missiles and a few long range missiles (about 9,000 km range). With those missiles they'd be able to kill thousands (or millions if there nuclear program is advanced enough) of Japanese and South Koreans. Too top is off they have over a million soldiers in there millitry and have a strong enough air force and anit-air weapons to put up a decent fight.
In the end, they have no chance, but they have the power to wage war for a long period of time and in the end could use there "weapons of mass destruction" to take a lot of people with them.