Well, the headline's partially right. Hilary Clinton did warn of consequences, but that was before she was silent about the North Korean missile launch. And I guess the "consequences" she spoke of meant a stalemate at the United Nations where the world body can't seem to form an opinion on the subject. Not surprising for a world government body which can only formulate opinions of historical occurrences. Massacres, atrocities, thumbing your nose at the world—these can only be addressed in retrospect, when the topic has entered the history books. The U.N is best at "standing by" as in "standing by" when people are being slaughtered, as they are so often in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, and Sudan….
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