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Trump unleashes new threat on North Korea in Fox News interview

Warning that North Korea's irredentist pursuit of nuclear weapons will result in a terrible situation for it, is exactly what the US should be doing.
Firm non-acceptance of North Korea's nuclear ambitions is nothing new - that's always been the case, and it isn't some newly invented position.
But the closer the North Koreans move to developing a full nuclear missile arsenal that can target the United States and the rest of the world, the more vocal and sharp the United States will have to be in its warnings - and that's exactly what Trump is doing. The North Koreans should not be left with the mistaken impression that the US will roll over and let them go nuclear. That's not going to happen - believing otherwise is an absolute fantasy.

Obama should have done his duty instead of passing the buck to the next guy, but that's what he did.
Bush should have done his duty instead of passing the buck to the next guy, but that's what he did.
Clinton should have done his duty instead of passing the buck to the next guy, but that's what he did.

If those men had fulfilled their responsibilities as they should have, then you'd be chastising them for using the same language that Trump is now using with Fat Kim.

Trumps sabre rattling is doing nothing. Stop deluding yourself.
 
Here you are accusing Trump of being a drama queen and on the other side of your mouth you're being exactly the same. Pot..meet Kettle.

Trump is correct that NK IS a problem that we have to solve. Trump is also correct that if we don't solve it then it is not going to be pleasant for anyone. Kim is just the type of person to use a nuke or attack someone with other weapons once he thinks he's got enough nukes that no one would dare retaliate for fear of Kim the Insane would actually use nukes if anyone dared oppose him. Such being the case...yeah...it wouldn't be pleasant for anyone.

And even if Kim somehow doesn't do what him and his papa use to threaten that doesn't mean that Kim's son won't later on. Seems to me that the further along the line of the Kim family that we get the more crazy that they get. To me its not a matter of "if", it's a matter of "when".

Kim Jong-un is a real threat. His government isn't testing nuclear missiles just for the fun of it, he means business. It would be damn foolish of the United States and our allies to blow it off or do nothing in response. Like anything else the key is prevention. We can't let him make the first strike and take lives, he needs to be stopped.
 
Trump is a ****ing moron - he can’t even spell negosheeate.

He is different, but then see I like that about him....it was long past time for some variety to spice things up.
 
Just more threats and counter threats. Seems Trump is no different from NK these days.

He has not. America has become a rogue nation. If another nation were threatening or even hinting the use of nuclear weapons, the US would have a cow. But, what's appalling for another nation has become perfectly acceptable for us. I am so surprised that our citizens are not more outraged.... probably because Trump and his administration are so completely inept and wallowing in controversy that we never have enough time to actually focus on just how close to the edge we are.

NK is completely in their rights to threaten Seattle, SF, LA, etc., because we are threatening them....and, should we act with nukes, its 'acceptable' in the eyes of the world for them to counteract.

Nothing will kill the US economy (not to mention millions of people) faster than a nuclear exchange. We certainly should not be cutting taxes if we are looking at war.

This is not a good situation as we seem to have two irrational mad men squaring off..... oddly, their madman seems less mad than ours.

Trump is unfit for this office. I do hope the adults in Washington take away his binky before it is too late.
 
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Kim Jong-un is a real threat. His government isn't testing nuclear missiles just for the fun of it, he means business. It would be damn foolish of the United States and our allies to blow it off or do nothing in response. Like anything else the key is prevention. We can't let him make the first strike and take lives, he needs to be stopped.


how many atmospheric atomic bomb & hydrogen bomb test, and ICBM test has the USA performed? Can you even count that high?

I'm confident those that opposed the US likely viewed the US doing those things in a similar manner.

Your proposal of a first strike against NK, be it conventional, or nuclear, is ill advised. The repercussions would be world wide & catastrophic for entire the planet.
 
He is different, but then see I like that about him....it was long past time for some variety to spice things up.

Domestic and foreign policies are serious, not childish games.
 
Domestic and foreign policies are serious, not childish games.

And the elite who have been pursuing them in all seriousness have driven America into the ditch.

Maybe it is time for a change in attitude, the little people sure think so, that is why so many of us picked Trump.
 
And the elite who have been pursuing them in all seriousness have driven America into the ditch.

Maybe it is time for a change in attitude, the little people sure think so, that is why so many of us picked Trump.

Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, nixion, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W Bush, clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama all knew what the stakes that surround North Korea are.

Trump doesn’t know the gravity of the situation, and not surprising for a man who managed to go bankrupt in the casino buissness.
 
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, LBJ, nixion, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W Bush, clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama all knew what the stakes that surround North Korea are.

Trump doesn’t know the gravity of the situation, and not surprising for a man who managed to go bankrupt in the casino buissness.

What gives you that idea?
 
Because all of the previous administrations have contained North Korea to what little land it has.

Our North Korea policy has long been an abject failure, but that does not speak to what Trump knows except that what we have done has failed, which pretty much everyone agrees upon....that the DC Policy Wonks failed here.

We are far less along in our understanding that we have failed with Russia, in fact our suckage with Russia is getting worse, but that's another story.

Trump wanted to sort that out as well, but he was prevented, for very poor reasons.
 
That's why Kim keeps threatening to attack?

If North Korea launches a single nuke at the United States or it’s allies, it will essentially be turned to glass by the counter strike.

It may be using the threat of nukes to keep America from using military force against the North Korean dictatorship
 
Trumps sabre rattling is doing nothing. Stop deluding yourself.

It's doing more good than all the Obama-Bush-Clinton procrastination put together. Stop pretending your heros accomplished anything there.
 
He is different, but then see I like that about him....it was long past time for some variety to spice things up.

Its fine to spice things up on NBC, but we are talking about the most powerful man in the world (at least that use to be the job description).

We, as voters, need to be responsible about who we put in that position. We as voters failed to do our homework in 2016 and failed the test. The electoral college, which was designed to protect our Constitution from moments of voter lapse, failed to do their job as the fail safe.
 
Its fine to spice things up on NBC, but we are talking about the most powerful man in the world (at least that use to be the job description).

We, as voters, need to be responsible about who we put in that position. We as voters failed to do our homework in 2016 and failed the test. The electoral college, which was designed to protect our Constitution from moments of voter lapse, failed to do their job as the fail safe.

Before America's great decline which has been so stunning in its speed that it can rightly be called a collapse, which is all of our faults.

What you need to get around to understanding is that our standing was shot to hell before Trump ever came around, due to our idiocy of planning and stunning incompetence to carry out those plans in the ME in general and in confronting Radical Islamic Terror in particular, because of the Great Recession that we gifted the world though mismanagement in general and lack of interest in crime in particular and that after we had no interest in fixing either the domestic or the global institutions which the Great Recession had proven beyond doubt proved have either failed or have nearly so.

The Elite blame it all on Trump because the story sells what they want to sell, but you need to see through what you are told to believe to the truth.
 
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Before America's great decline which has been so stunning in its speed that it can rightly be called a collapse, which is all of our faults.

What you need to get around to understanding is that our standing was shot to hell before Trump ever came around, due to our idiocy of planning and stunning incompetence to carry out those plans in the ME in general and in confronting Radical Islamic Terror in particular, because of the Great Recession that we gifted the world though mismanagement in general and lack of interest in crime in particular and that after we had no interest in fixing either the domestic or the global institutions which the Great Recession had proven beyond doubt proved have either failed or have nearly so.

The Elite blame it all on Trump because the story sells what they want to sell, but you need to see through what you are told to believe to the truth.

I think you should think about the bolded words.... and, read the Emperor's New Clothes....
 
So lefties feel that Fat Kim, who assassinated his own half-brother, should be allowed to build up a nuclear missile arsenal to hold a nuclear knife to the throats of the world.

People are free to give their opinions - no matter how insane and ignorant - but sane people will recognize their insanity for what it is.

For some stupid reason I'm gonna play your stupid game.
I'm a 'lefty', a liberal. What I think should be done, what I would do if I was Trump, is send a carrier task force into the Yellow Sea, draw fire and make the issue NATO-able. America has troops there already so you and South K would take the brunt of the initial action but your allies would respond as quickly as they can. Fears about China are unfounded, or exaggerated. If Kim strikes first China cuts him loose.
But if your daft President can make the powers-that-be agree to nuke Pyongyang, a hundred miles from Seoul? Forgetaboutit. You just set yourselves up for disaster.
 
yes, to stay in their silos and not be used. The only use of nuclear weapons is deterrence.

In your bubble, where bad things don't happen.
 
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