The day we attack North Korea is the day we either don't give a shit what China thinks anymore or we are at our last option. My personal opinion is bomb the shit out of that fat piece of shit. I'm so tired of their saber rattling and tiny man syndrome. However China has a ton more people than we do and we are too big of pussies to risk pissing them off. Plus they basically own us in debt.
I think we've gotten to that point. Hell, even Japan is considering a "preemptive strike", which I think is a hilarious choice of words considering NK shot a missile over their nation recently. The U.S. is a rational superpower and we are not going to let North Korea become an existential threat to us. While China has a lot more people, our military and economy are far superior. And as far as the debt goes- I don't think that matters yet because China is so relatively weak. Plus we could just print our way out of it theoretically. I do agree that the U.S. is terribly soft for a superpower. Media/liberals lost us Vietnam, and you've got to wonder how much better the world would be if we had actually listened to Douglas MacArthur and dropped 50 nukes on China and actually won the Korean War. In a way, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were
too successful.