In regards to last year’s tensions, do you remember the behavior of childhood bullies in a schoolyard? They sometimes don’t react nicely to reason and explanations. Sadly, though, they don’t react nicely to anything. We’ll see, though. Never can tell about tomorrow for sure.
Re your school house bully comment.
A bully, school yard or otherwise will never go after someone they know will fight back. No one ever feared Obama because they knew he would never fight, ditto Carter when the embassy was taken over by “students”.
Within a day or so of Reagan being inaugurated the American captives in IRAN were freed and as we see happening now the N Koreans at least so far are reacting in a similar way to Trump, due to his willingness to maintain and ramp up the crippling sanctions on NK.