Comment: Even if their plan is to have the missiles splash down 30 to 40 km offshore (and I think Dear Leader is absolutely crazy enough to do it) Trump can’t allow it to happen, for a myriad of reasons only one of which is Dear Leader.
 
In the upcoming couple of weeks there will be global tension the likes of which hasn’t been seen since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, except that this time you don’t have a steely-eyed John Kennedy on the American end, but more like Ronald McDonald. Likewise on the Korean end, you have someone with the belligerence of Krushchev, but who doesn’t have the fear of taking his brinksmanship into nuclear conflict. Nowhere near the balanced interests that existed in ’62. If there was ever a time where China was going to play a role in this madness, that time has come.