Oh, crap.

Remember that contrail swamp gas weather balloon UFO the triumphant return of Amelia Earhart missile that was fired from sea level off the Kalifornia coast a couple weeks ago?

I had it figured that it was China.  I thought it might simply be a stern warning to quit devaluing their debt.  Hottie With An Evil Pink Rifle has a different, and likely more accurate, view of things.

So, China has given the Norks the go-ahead to destabilize the Peninsula. China can easily pin down all U.S. forces in the Pacific Theater (S. Korea and Okinawa for all intents and purposes) and take Taiwan. We don't have a prayer of stopping a Chinese incursion of S. Korea - even if we had the will. The Chinese Army is 2.3 million men, with another 1.5 million in the active reserves. If they needed to, they could summon another 30 million men through conscription if necessary and not even break a sweat doing it.
 
Further, China is not engaged in any conflicts, so they have their full military at their complete disposal. We do not. Oh - and one more thing. The United States is flat on its @$$ broke. China is not.
 
Finally, we have been shown by physical demonstration that if we resist China, they are ready, willing and able to launch missiles onto our cities.

Go read the whole thing.  Then start rehabilitating that old bomb shelter your grandparents had installed during that Cuba thing in '63.  "Interesting times," indeed.

EDIT:  I just scrolled down HWAEPR's blog...and found her post from when the missile first launched.  It has the same title.  Great minds and all that.