The North Korea-Trump Nightmare
It would begin because the present approach of leaning on China to pressure North Korea will likely fail. Trump will grow angry at public snickering at the emptiness of his threats.
.. At some point, U.S. intelligence will see a North Korean missile prepared for a test launch — and it may then be very tempting for a deeply frustrated rogue president to show his muscle. Foreign
.. the country might respond by firing artillery at Seoul, a metropolitan area of 25 million people.
.. a new Korean war could cause one million casualties and $1 trillion in damage.
.. “I do not believe there is any plausible military action that does not bring with it a possibility of a catastrophic conflict.”
.. China’s relations with North Korea aren’t nearly as close as Americans think.
.. In the 1990s, North Korea continued with its nuclear program even as a famine claimed the lives of perhaps 10 percent of the population
.. Instead, she urges greater measures to undermine the regime’s legitimacy at home by smuggling in information about it and the world (as some activists are already doing).
.. pushing for a deal in which North Korea would verifiably freeze its nuclear and missile programs without actually giving up its nukes, in exchange for sanctions relief.