Who's Ready for War with North Korea?

It is true that there is not much that South Korean President Lee Myung-bak could reasonably do, one way or the other, in response to the sinking of a South Korean navy patrol vessel in the Yellow Sea.

But what little the president of that country has done, he has done near perfectly. This needs to be noted. A penchant for caution around the Korean Peninsula is no little blessing.

North Korea is a miserable economy of a country but it is nonetheless a military force with which to be reckoned. It is one that includes, everyone assumes, some small speck of nuclear weaponry.

Was the ship named Cheonan attacked by the North Korean navy as it bobbed around the unofficial line on the high sea dividing Northern from Southern coastal waters?