UN to vote on watered-down new sanctions against North Korea

What's that definition of insanity? Doing the same thing and getting the same results. He doesn't care about sanctions, embargoes or anything else. He's going for broke and is not about to be seen as weak, even if he is. They have elevated them to an almost deity and anybody that contradicts that gets fed to hungry dogs or shot with anti-aircraft guns. The only thing he will understand is force, and lots of it. If China wants to stay on our good side they'll either smack some sense into him or back off and watch us do it. This is like poison ivy. You can keep scratching it while it spreads, occasionally smear some calamine on it and hope it doesn't spread to your eyes, or get a steroid shot and end it. Scratching and watching it spread for 65 years is no cure. It's just prolonged agony.

Appeasement?

I concur with your assessment.