Trump says one thing, the U.S. ambassador to the UN says another, the secretary of state says something else entirely. Some are calling it the ‘good cop, bad cop’ routine. Looks more like the Keystone Cops.
Those who seek comfort in the fact that the U.S. has the firepower to wipe North Korea off the map need to review their geography. Seoul is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the world — home to 25.6 million people. And it's just 35 miles from North Korea.
Then there’s Tokyo. It has 37.8 million people in its greater metropolitan area. North Korea has shown in missile tests that the Japanese capital is within range.
And how would China respond to a US nuclear strike, or even a conventional one, on its borders — given that it would trigger a vast refugee inflow from North Korea into China?