Aloha, kimo.  I'm not a warmonger by any means and the last thing we need is to get into another war, but sometimes you need to risk a war in order to avoid one.  JFK risked a nuclear was with the Russians in order to avoid one.  The best and the brightest in both Republican and Democrat administrations tried to get NK to the negotiation table and failed.  My feeling is that, President Trump has pushed KJU into a corner where negotiating now would be the equivalent of surrender.  I think he's doing that intentionally.  Kim JongUn is now in a position where he can't negotiate and save face.  Only option is to fight and that would mean the end of him and North Korea.  Either way, North Korea and KJU is toast.  The question now is what happens after that?  We get a unified Korea and China gets Taiwan?