Many of us sadden by the tragic attack on a South Korean warship by a North Korean submarine back in March. What has the world done since then? Not too much. North Korea knowingly, possibly defiantly, launched a torpedo at the South Korean warship without any provocation. This should unilaterally be seen as a direct act of war in the international community, but yet, no country has stood up and acted on this. That all changed today. The United States bravely sent a diplomat to Seoul to send a “stern” message to North Korea. Yeah, that’s like telling a homicidal maniac “you did a very bad thing” instead of locking him/her up or delivering the death sentence.

The attack on the South Korean ship left 46 sailors dead, but the United Nations has decided not to blame North Korea for fear of angering China (North Korea’s older, Communist brother in case you weren’t aware). The Assistant Secretary of State (there was such a thing?) Kurt Campbell disclosed that the meeting will involve a lot of nonsense but nothing fruitful will come of it. Okay, he didn’t say that, but that’s pretty much what’s going to happen. North Korea murders and innocent South Korean ship for spite and everyone is afraid to touch them because China is the only opponent (well maybe Russia as well) that can stand up to America if a huge war ever broke out.

Is this the future of how violent international acts of aggression will be? One country does something particularly heinous and everyone sits around wagging their fingers with no course of action taken? The United Nations “condemned the attack but, in deference to China, did not blame North Korea.” The United Nations is so weak and useless that it cannot even place adequate blame on the obvious aggressor in this whole ordeal.