Consider an alternate suggestion: the real target of President Trump’s remarks in his UN speech may not have been the DPRK at all, but the American people.

Keep in mind Congress has weaseled out of doing its Constitutional duty - - according to Section I Article 8 (“Congress shall have the Power to . . .declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water”) - - ever since December 8, 1941. 

In Korea Truman did not even ask for a declaration of war in 1950, but rested his authority to use force on a UN security council vote taken when the USSR rep was absent. Thereafter he referred to the conflict not as war but as a “Police Action”.

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