(August 8, 2017 at 3:29 pm)Jello Wrote: Part of me wonders if it's the little orange man looking for a reason for a punch up.
Not that the North Koreans haven't been trying for a while.
I don't think so-- the timing's not right. The correct time to launch an attack is about a year before the next election-- you have to get people's sentiments when America is "winning," not when they've had boots on the ground for a few months and kids start getting sent home in bags.
That being said, I don't think Trump is really bluffing. The current rhetoric makes me really suspect that we could see action sooner rather than later.
I live in Korea, and I hold the pretty unpopular opinion that war now is better than war later-- I think N. Korea is just going to become a bigger and bigger threat. Letting it develop further is like watching a cancerous tumor to see what it's "going to do."