When the time comes

Subject: When the,time comes.

It's all very much in the eye of the beholder.
As Kim Jong Un goes on the offensive with an array of weaponry which both excites and worries defence experts to say nothing of the man in the street.  Clearly it has worried the countries who have armed themselves such as the US, Russia, UK, France, India, Pakistan, Israel, with other nations bordering on the brink of crossing the line and becoming nuclear.
The argument of the need for global action in preventing countries from developing mass destruction weaponry has to be seen from the point of view of who is speaking. Why should the world feel satisfied that a man with Donald Trumps pedigree is better able to restrict firing them at someone he has lost patience with or the Indian Prime Minister or Prime Minister Netanyahu. Is Kim Jong Un with his parades of armed might any more to be feared than President Putin who also still puts on quite a show.
Leaders of many nation states have often been known to be egotists, how other did they bully their way into power. History is littered with paranoid persona seeking attention through politics and Kim seems to be one in a long line. His brainwashed nation is in no condition to judge him rationally and much as Moe Zedtung drew fanaticism out of the constructed Chinese mind it seems more an Asian phenomena rather than a European one.
The Chinese along with their newly found Russian friends have decided to cock a snoop at America in another throw of power politics in a dangerous game of pit bull bravado. Kim with his teeth bared is a terrifying sight especially to his close neighbours and one wonders at the technical strides he has made to fire off rocket after rocket with near perfect symmetry.
Here in the UK we have privatised our rocket industry and count ourselves lucky if some billionaire can be induced to launch a satellite for some scientific payload. We have given up the Kim Jong Un urge to sabre rattle and with the depleting funds we rather spend it on Welfare but even then, we still miss the target.   
Most nations are happy to sit under a security umbrella such as NATO and receive assurance that to attack one is to attack all. Unfortunately this assurance has worn a little thin by Mr Trumps disdain of NATO particularly the large bill the Americans have to pick up to give it teeth.
Assurances are one thing but as at the lead up to the Second World War we dithered under Chamberlain to meet our commitments and go to war against Germany. Leadership comes in all shapes and sizes and it's the luck of the draw if you have a good-un when the time comes and you need one.