The NK problem has been kicked down the road by every president since Truman. Truman should have allowed MacArthur to roll all the way to the Chinese border. Instead we've had 66 years of the world and our presidents both ignoring the problem and appeasing the NK's. Now the problem is a nuclear one and President Trump has to deal with it at the same time almost everyone in the DC swamp is against him.
You nailed it.
Yes, but the biggest contributor to this current crisis is Clinton, without a doubt. The time to have definitively dealt with North Korea's nuclear ambitions was during Clinton's tenure, and what we got instead was a an ‘agreement’ that has led us to the brink of disaster. Two self-absorbed idiots with law degrees from Yale (the Clintons) and another self-absorbed idiot with a degree from Wellesley (Albright) have put the world at incredible risk, and that's not an overstatement.
“Truman should have allowed MacArthur to roll all the way to the Chinese border.”
Dude, we did roll all the way to the Chinese border.
The Chinese came in with their tennis shoes and one weapon for every few men, and pushed us all the way back to the 38th parallel.
The Chinese have millennia of experience with getting unwilling men to fight. They lost 40 million just in the Tai Ping rebellion alone.
If they thought they could come out of a nuclear exchange with a piddling little 40 million dead, they wouldn’t be deterred by fear of the casualties.