North Korea, that persistent outlier somewhat reasonably ignored until this Memorial Day by an Obama administration with far bigger fish to fry, once again jumped back onto the global media's front pages when the pugnacious Pyongyang government detonated its second nuclear device — and fired six short-range missiles to boot. As far as I'm concerned, you can enjoy all the fear-mongering military maneuvers ("Watch Condition II," as joint U.S. and South Korean forces triggered this morning), the ritualistic condemnations from the faces of a new administration ("consequences," as Hillary Clinton put it), and the stern warnings from all the usual suspects (China said it was "resolutely opposed"), but don't expect any progress anytime soon.
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