That's what some pundit is hopefully guessing, that they're playing good cop bad cop. I doubt if Trump is up to that. This is highly disappointing on our President's part, but I TOLD YOU THIS SHIT WOULD HAPPEN. I'm not surprised. And yes, he probably will get us into a war with NoKo.
I think he's doing a great job talking "Little Rocket Man's" language. Wow, that must have come as a surprise, for Kim to get worse back than Kim has been spouting off!
I'm thinking Trump will wait till we ..."need" a war, when there is significant civil unrest, political disorder. I could be wrong and NoKo starts it, however. Usually it's a ship, of course: Remember the Maine, Tonkin Gulf. Could be an airplane; that's what the Chinese tried on with G.W. Bush.
I'm reading books about NoKo frantically, as it seems inevitable to me, and I think it would logically involve Iran, too --- same type of menacing, after all. In general, people mean what they say and if they say they want to destroy all Americans, best to take them out. What I'm wondering is whether such a war would come to involve Russia ----- Putin seems to worry about that because he's been urgently telling the U.S. and NoKo to cool it.