For too long, U.S. presidents of both parties have lived with the North Korean threat.  My guess is that they thought there were no pretty options, and it's easy to understand that, with millions of civilians living within range of North Korea's massive artillery.  Also, North Korea was just a loud dog for years, and not one that threatened to start a nuclear war. We have now reached the point where North Korea's insane behavior is unsustainable.  In other words, one of those missiles is going to hit a ship, a city, or U.S. troops on the border.  It's like having a kid walking around with an AK-47 and making the neighborhood rather uncomfortable. Therefore, it's perfectly reasonable for President Trump to talk so much about the threat, as Claudia Rosett wrote: Pyongyang, with its totalitarian, dynastic Kim regime, has bedeviled American presidents, both Democratic and Republican, for decades. But after years of Obama's...(Read Full Post)