Two years later, according to the campaign pledge he made, Ike went to Korea and let the belligerent DPRK and their PRC allies know in no uncertain terms we had the global lead in fission weapons and unless they got their sorry behinds to a negotiating table, he Ike was well acquainted with how to wage and win all out WAR. Less than six months later the DPRK signed the Armistice cease fire - - not a peace treaty which is why we are still technically in a state of conflict.

If this guess is true, Trump may well end this ambiguity by asking Congress to declare a state of WAR exists between the USA and the nuclear armed DPRK. To do that he must first get the backing of ‘we the people’ because, left to its own devices, Congress is sure to crawfish away from doing its duty AGAIN.

Ike's plain talk paid off: for the next 8 years there was not a single American combat death and Trump is aware of this.