Just because the boy cries Wolf, Wolf!, Rap, it doesn't follow that there never will be a wolf.

I'm not too worried about the world ending, 'erbert. but I do think it fairly likely that there will be an exchange of fire between the two- and at that point it will/would take real diplomacy between Russia/China and the West.

And who can know whether one of these times North Korea does not releasel a 'small' nuclear bomb?

Who would have guessed that the assassination of the Archduke would start World War I?