Posted on 09/24/2017 4:35:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
When President Trump gave a fiery campaign speech in Huntsville, Ala., on Friday evening, he drew a rapturous roar by ridiculing Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, as “Little Rocket Man.”
Among diplomats and national security specialists, the reaction was decidedly different. After Mr. Trump repeated his taunt in a tweet late Saturday and threatened that Mr. Kim and his foreign minister “won’t be around much longer” if they continue their invective against the United States, reactions ranged from nervous disbelief to sheer terror.
Mr. Trump’s willingness to casually threaten to annihilate a nuclear-armed foe was yet another reminder of the steep risks inherent in his brute-force approach to diplomacy. His strengths as a politician — the ability to appeal in a visceral way to the impulses of ordinary citizens — are a difficult fit for the meticulous calculations that his own advisers concede are crucial in dealing with Pyongyang.
The disconnect has led to a deep uncertainty about whether Mr. Trump is all talk or actually intends to act. The ambiguity could be strategic, part of an effort to intimidate Mr. Kim and keep him guessing. Or it could reflect a rash impulse by a leader with little foreign policy experience to vent his anger and stoke his supporters’ enthusiasm....
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or a leg to run down....
Sanction them and sanction their trade partners.
Mine their coast.
Arrest any diplomats you can find of theirs or any officials you can, and tell Rocket Man that he stops nuclear development right now, or they will be held at Gitmo for the duration.
did the NYT ‘shiver’ in 1993?:
“...back in 1993, President Bill Clinton gave perhaps an even starker warning to North Korea. In a trip to Seoul, South Korea, Clinton said that if North Korea gained and used a nuclear weapon “we would quickly and overwhelmingly retaliate.”
“It would mean the end of their country as they know it,” he said, according to a New York Times report at that time.”
Empty threat. He's doesn't care about any one but himself.
Bullies don't care about language, the only thing they understand is getting hit right in the nose.
Yes, the great diplomacy of Bush Sr removing nukes from Korea to supposedly remove Kim’s argument that he could not stop until we removed nukes... and when he did he was emboldened.
Obviously collaborating libtards hate a process to reverse that wherever it may lead.
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