How to Avoid Armageddon in Korea



Most people intuitively get it. An American preventive strike to wipe out North Korea’s nuclear bombs and ballistic missiles, or a commando raid launched with the same goal in mind, is likely to initiate a chain of events culminating in catastrophe.

That would be true above all for the roughly 76 million Koreans living on either side of the Demilitarized Zone. Pres. Donald Trump, though, seems unperturbed. His recent contribution to defusing the crisis there — boasting that his nuclear button is “bigger and more powerful” than that of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Read More