NK is threatening with nuking US

[Pat Mustard]

I don't know. What I do know though is that he is playing one hell of a dangerous game. He has called Trump things like, "a mentally deranged person full of megalomania and complacency." I agree with him! He left out, "childlessly egotistical" though.

Unlike Kim, Trump isn't blowing smoke. As President, he has constitutionally unlimited power over the nukes. Others can try to talk him out of it but if he says, "Launch!" those missiles are going to fly. And there are enough of them to burn the whole of NK to the bedrock.

Any responsible President would consider the consequences of such an action without dire provocation. What would it do to our standing in the world community?

Does anybody think Trump is going to reason it out? Make an informed, rational decision?

Trump is a simple, school-yard bully who is being taunted by another, much-weaker bully. If Kim has any sense at all, he really should STFU.  Unfortunately, he's just as immature, egotistical and megalomaniacal. He's calculating how far he can push Trump - just as Saddam Husein did with W. Saddam miscalculated and it cost him his life. If Kim miscalculates, it will cost a LOT of lives.

Actually Kim is playing Trump like a violin. He knows Trump is a blowhard who rarely, if ever, goes through on his threats (even his two military actions, in Syria and Afghanistan, were about the show and stroking Trump's ego, not militarily valid actions). And from the last twenty years of geopolitics he'll have seen the US only go after targets which cannot fight back.

Often times the best way with a bully is to show you can hurt them right back. Mostly this means going to authority, but the odd occasion a bloodied nose is more effective.