Nearly all U.S. presidents are tested early in their tenures,
but the speed with which Donald Trump and his administration have
climbed the escalation ladder towards a showdown with North Korea
over its nuclear weapons has been dizzying.
A military confrontation with the heavily armed regime in
Pyongyang would be frightening under any circumstances, but the
dangers are multiplied by the personalities involved. As two
untested, mercurial (and frankly, psychotic) presidents face off,
the world waits to see who will blink first in a deadly game of
dare.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-north-korea-climbing-escalation-ladder-214052550.html
Kim Jong Un knows he can't win, but it would be an unimaginable
humiliation for him to back down: In a deadly game of dare, Kim
Jong-un will take the suicide option, ie. fire as many nuclear
warhead and chemical weapon missiles into America and South Korea,
before America takes him down.
But in Donald Trump, Kim Jong Un is up against a man who likes
to be unpredictable, too.
In the past ten days, Mr Trump has reversed the US position on
Syria, Russia and China. His furious rants on the election trail
against sending American troops to solve foreign problems are
forgotten.
He has launched airstrikes on Syria and there is talk of ‘boots
on the ground’ to follow.
He has dropped the ‘Mother of All Bombs’ on Afghanistan to rout
Islamic State.
And he has sent a colossal aircraft carrier group, with more
artillery strike power than the whole of Singapore's, Malaysia's
and Indonesia's Air Forces combined, towards North Korea.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-4413342/In-deadly-game-dare-Kim-Jong-suicide.html
