North Korea Threatens to Attack South Over Nuclear Ship Interdiction

I think this saber-rattling by the North needs to be met with some kind of decent response.

Pyongyang, reacting angrily to Seoul's decision to join an international program to intercept ships suspected of aiding nuclear proliferation, called South Korea's decision tantamount to a declaration of war.

"Now that the South Korean puppets were so ridiculous as to join in the said racket and dare declare a war against compatriots," North Korea is "compelled to take a decisive measure," the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement carried by state media.

The North Korean army called it a violation of the armistice the two Koreas signed in 1953 to end their three-year war, and said it would no longer honor the treaty.

This is quite a test of the Obama Administration and how far it can be pushed by belligerent hostile powers. So the response has been pretty mealy-mouthed and full of talk. I think the North knows they can push Obama around and the Iranians are looking on with interest.