And North Korea has been known to bluster before, so can you tell us how seriously, or not, the administration is taking this, and what, if any, action might be planned?
Journalist and actor Fernando Angelo focused on the supposed tendency to bluster of the Argentine "hermanos" (brothers), especially when it comes to football, claiming that the "Argentines are already saying that the new Pope is better than Pele!"
The economic story over the remaining months of 2012 may be more important to this vital diplomacy than the election result in the U.S. For all the room Republicans have as challengers to bluster about China and other matters abroad, the choices come 2013 will be narrower, not least for that fiscal vise that will grip Washington.
China, which has embarked on a major naval arms buildup in recent years, appears to believe that it can bluff and bluster its way to supremacy in the surrounding seas, but its neighbors are not standing passively by.
Economic hardship gives both Seoul and Pyongyang a strong incentive to put aside bluster and seriously negotiate their differences.
But he has provided so many pat explanations of the violence, and promised so many times to bring it to a swift conclusion, that his assurance is beginning to look like bluster.
In the end, the West must be prepared to stand up to the Kremlin's menacing bluster and mete out appropriate punishment to the Serbs for their genocidal aggression, or face much more of both.
We don't need to use threats or force, intimidation or coercion, or reduce ourselves to self-defeating bluster when our other tools fail.
The crisis drags on in North Korea as Kim Jong-Un continues his threatening rhetoric and the world tries to suss out whether the whole thing is bluff and bluster or a serious threat to international security.
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"It's hard to know what's bluster and what's not with the Israelis, " said a former U.S. official.
North Korea's bluster also failed to overshadow President Obama's breakthrough declaration in Prague, Czech Republic, for global nuclear disarmament.
Unfortunately, as is all too often the case, both sides are convinced of the rectitude of their respective positions, neither side is willing to budge, and years later, both sides lick their wounds with little to show for all their bluster.
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The more seasoned cast members relish their opportunities to melodramatically sneer, flounce and bluster as required.
Regular refs blow calls, too, a fact that seems to have been forgotten amid the bluster.
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CN, despite their bluster that it has to be now or never.
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He talks with a Brooklyn bluster and he tends to act out his sentences, so that when he describes the marshmallow task he takes on the body language of an impatient four-year-old.
Obama administration officials see the letter as a sign that Iran is feeling the strain of sustained economic pressure, and they suspect the recent bluster may be designed to create the impression that Tehran is entering a new round of diplomacy from a position of strength rather than weakness.
Even the elder Dixon boy, Merle, for all his bluster and bigotry, wants to be part of the collective.
Despite Mr Assad's bluster, even Syria appears to accept this logic.
They, too, are capable of bluster but prudence would seem to be the order of the day if economic reform is indeed to be the Chinese priority.
For all of the neo-con's unipolar bluster, America will have to seek multilateral solutions to many of the political and economic challenges facing it worldwide to maintain peace abroad and prosperity at home.
That charge, if more than just over-the-top bluster, would be close to an allegation of treason--suggesting that the president deliberately put our young men and women in harm's way for no purpose other than politics.
For all its bluster, the government has yet to decide how to deal with the miscreants.
For all its bluster, the government seems reluctant to sink relations with Israel altogether.
At first I tried to cover up my silence with a little bluster.
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