of its own cities, say for example denver, in order to protect seoul and tokyo? denver, in order to this denver, in order to afternoon, the us ambassador rushed this afternoon, the us ambassador rushed to see japan's foreign minister to reassure him. no action taken by the north koreans will in any way deter our commitment. japan and the us may have the military might to deter north korea, but they have few other levers to pressure pyongyang. only one country does, and that is china. china was quite literally shaken by the blast. north korea's nuclear test site is only 60 miles from the border. it will have sent a diplomaticjolt, too, coming just before president xiejin ping opened this international summit. although he made no direct reference, he warned of the