Ever since the Jimmy Carter foreign policy train-wreck forty years ago the DPRK has been playing Uncle Sam like a mark with an endless iterations of bait and switch. This game has been used by DPRK as a diversion so we would not notice their relentless march toward gaining the capability to deliver nuclear warheads atop ICBMs to desired ground zeroes in the lower 48. As things stand now many believe they already have the reach to foot print our islands with their warheads.

Unlike the establishment elites of both parties, President Trump believes that action talks and BS walks. Hurling a clutch of Tomahawks to degrade operational capability of a Syrian military air field and authorizing the first use of the Massive Ordnance Air Blast precision guided munition in anger against an Islamic terror tunnel complex each served a dual function: target damage and demonstrating to DPRK that Uncle Sam has grown weary of being played for a sucker with phony “frameworks” and “peace talks”.