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Exclusive: Dictators Hold All The Cards in a Deadly Game » Publications » Family Security Matters: "A while back I suggested once America’s enemies started to doubt US resolve they would start actively challenging the United States. This is called the Jimmy Carter problem.

It looks like some of our adversaries got the memo. Last week saw more than a few challenges to American leadership.

An official government statement of how North Korea plans to respond to upcoming U.S.-South Korea Naval Exercise declared

“the more desperately the U.S. imperialists brandish their nukes and the more zealously their lackeys follow them, the more rapidly the [North's] nuclear deterrence will be bolstered up along the orbit of self-defense and the more remote the prospect for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula will be become.”

The U.S. looks weak and needs to take a tougher stand on North Korea, argues Heritage expert Bruce Klingner, “It is imperative that the U.S. and its allies take all appropriate steps to prepare for potential new and expanded North Korean military provocations and attacks. James Clapper, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and nominee for Director of National Intelligence, warned recently of the start of a ‘dangerous new period’ in which the North seeks to mount ‘direct attacks’ on the South. He testified that the threat from North Korean military forces ‘cannot be taken lightly.”