South Korea needs to stop pussyfooting around and whoop their ass. If that was US soil this would have been over in the first two hours. Sanctions didn't work and the buzz about the US leasing tactical nukes to SK and Japan as a deterrent would probably just destabilize the region even more.
At this point China won't step in and help NK, at least not militarily. This is NK's second big fuck up in the past 6 months.