It has been four weeks since Donald Trump vowed to rain down upon North Korea “fire and fury, like the world has never seen” if it continued to behave so belligerently. Indeed, even in the event of a North Korean attack it’s not self-evident how the United States would respond. North Korea may not be an expansionist power like the Soviet Union, but it is not a particularly stable or predictable one, either. The ideal solution, of course, would have been to have prevented North Korea from ever getting nukes in the first place. But there is no stable equilibrium to be maintained here; neither does North Korea have anything like the number of missiles the Soviets did.

Source: National Post September 05, 2017 00:41 UTC