And somewhere, despite all the outcry, leaders know that the same people calling for intervention may repudiate it the moment it goes wrong.
As European businesses and financial markets got back to work this week after the holiday break, attention focused on Greece and the possibility that Syriza, a populist leftwing movement, may repudiate the country's EU bailout debts if it wins snap elections on 25 January.
While we may repudiate Pyongyang's threats and their specific formulation as largely domestically-directed bluster, it is possible that North Korea's underlying insecurities are sincere.
Though culture may be more voluntary than disability, both are subject to varying identification – an individual may repudiate or embrace a culture, or regard a disability as a burden to be alleviated or an identity to be affirmed.
However, the existence of contingent a priori truths is more controversial than that of necessary a posteriori propositions, and someone trying to define epistemic necessity in terms of metaphysical necessity or vice versa may repudiate the contingent a priori and hold that the extension of epistemic necessity is included in that of metaphysical necessity.
An individual may repudiate transactions associated with his account or enrollment claiming instead that they are the result of attacks due to the inability of the biometric system to ensure liveness.
Investors may have repudiated the Internet, they say, but consumers have not.
King may have repudiated his youthful Keynesianism, but like Keynes he is well aware that economics is in the end about people, in all their non-reductive variousness, making history in ways the present cannot foretell.
(She may or may not have repudiated him on Oscar night by wearing a dress by Rodarte to the awards ceremony).
Huillet (who died in 2006) and Straub's films may be overtly linked to the high-art manner, and they may well have repudiated vulgar showmanship, but they certainly don't renounce drama and beauty, and imagining seeing their films in a forum that emphasizes those qualities is already almost as good as seeing them there.
