vtsnowedin wrote:It will be hard for them to sell anything if they manage to get themselves blown into a smoking ash heap.
Yup.
At the big White House meeting on NK Trump indicated he is going to rely on diplomatic pressure and sanctions to get NK to stop their nuke program.
On the other hand, he's moved a lot of US naval assets into dangerous waters around NK.
I wouldn't be surprised if Trump wants to see something like the 1964 Tonkin Gulf incident happen again, i.e. some kind of US Navy interaction with the North Koreans that Trump can use to justify a US military response.
In 1964 LBJ used the Tonkin Gulf incident to take the US into the Vietnam War. Will Trump do something similar now to start a war against North Korea?