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President Trump\u2019s threat to North Korea during his speech this week before the United Nations upset a lot of liberals, but they would be upset even more if Kim Jong-un and his pirate regime were to use a nuclear weapon on the U.S. or its allies.<\/p>\n
Referring to Kim as \u201cRocket Man,\u201d Trump basically said North Korea would be destroyed if any of its nuclear weapons were used in act of war against our nation.<\/p>\n
The thing the liberals should remember is that Trump is responding to threats from Kim. His job is to protect the U.S., not to make Kim happy.<\/p>\n
Some Americans believe Kim is harmless, and that his tests of nuclear weapons are defensive in nature, but that isn\u2019t true.<\/p>\n
No other nation is likely to attack North Korea unless North Korea attacks first, or poises to attack \u2014 especially to attack South Korea, which is an American ally. American troops are stationed there, and are in harm\u2019s way if Kim decides to turn his many threats to attack the South into reality.<\/p>\n
So far, the two Koreas and the U.S. have been engaged in an exercise of feints, but that exercise is dangerously close to turning into real war if Kim continues to arm with nuclear capabilities.<\/p>\n
So far, Kim\u2019s gamble that the U.S. won\u2019t respond in force to his nuclear tests has paid off.<\/p>\n
But if something should go wrong during one of those tests and a missile should land on Japan, or South Korea, or on American territory, the U.S. would have no other choice than to destroy North Korea\u2019s war-making capability.<\/p>\n
The important thing is that if Kim believes Trump, he may start behaving himself, stop spending his impoverished nation\u2019s scarce treasure on war preparations and instead try to do for his people what his predecessors have not done, which is to provide food and other basic needs.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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