This is OUR Club, No Little Countries Allowed!

North Korea is trying to advance their military technology without asking permission from the big kids on the playground. Predictably, our response is bordering on bumbling into fighting-words territory. If you have a history of dishing out food when it's food or nuclear bomb tests, and you are likely going to continue doing so in the future, is it really a good idea right now to call tests of a long range missile by our adversaries provocative ?