NK is threatening with nuking US

[Minimalist]

At the urging of the USSR.

[Seraphina]

I mean how come US? Why not Mexico or Canada or Europe or Russia? I mean what do those politicians do that NK doesn't want to nuke them but wants to nuke US?

Read up on the Korean War, which the US was heavily involved in, and you'll get some insight. There was no peace treaty signed at the end of the war. North and South Korea are still technically at war - the US still patrols the DMZ between the 2 countries.

-Teresa

[Edwardo Piet]

I think South Park portrays the WLB very well, lol:

[tykobrian]

Who is Trump trying to impress with this rocket man shenanigan? And I'm not confident who will snap first and start nuking the other. What is going on with this world??

[Astonished]

Makes me wonder why Trump isn't going all Dubya and giving NK '24 hours' to hand the Dear Leader's ass over.

[chimp3]

When the Trumpus  decides to invade North Korea one of his sons should lead the charge. Let him make the sacrifice he will force others to accept.

[Fireball]

When the Trumpus  decides to invade North Korea one of his sons should lead the charge. Let him make the sacrifice he will force others to accept.

He'll probably be a victim of fratricide. Fitting demise.

[Minimalist]

Who is Trump trying to impress with this rocket man shenanigan?

The double-digit IQ morons who voted for him.

[Astonished]

When the Trumpus  decides to invade North Korea one of his sons should lead the charge. Let him make the sacrifice he will force others to accept.

Bill Maher had suggested the Bush twins be sent out to the front lines since their dad started up the whole thing again in Iraq. Guess the first family wasn't willing to put their money where their mouth was. Or any of the celebrities who spoke in favor of it like Britney Spears.

[GUBU]

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.