China will flatten us if we strike first
Flatten us? Too funny.
Are you Chinese or something?
I suppose the point is moot. If we bomb NK, either conventionally or with nukes, NK will send its nukes over to SK and Japan (which it can do already without ICBM's) and southeast asia will be poison for centuries and so many people will be dead that we can certainly say no one won. China probably won't have time to get involved.
China has already stated that if Kim starts it, he's on his own.
Trump's first responsibility is to America.
Look, we're trying a good old fashioned seige on NK except China is keeping the front gate open. Sanctions will not work. Kim knows we won't hit him first so he keeps merrily developing and testing his weapons. He doesn't have to do one damned thing differently and he is going to end up with an ICBM that can deliver a nuclear weapon to the continent of his choice. It's going to happen. He doesn't want to talk. China won't let the country starve. That's where we are, and where we are going to remain, so far as I can see. We might as well stop talking about it and putting it on the damned news every night. Nothing is going to change.
Not one, single thing Trump said changes any of that. If we are ATTACKED FIRST we will strike. He's said that before. Took a little longer to say it this time, but in August he said the same thing about "fire and fury."
Maybe we need to shit or get off the pot. I hope I'm totally wrong about all of this and the sanctions do end up working and NK comes to the table and negotiates denuclearization. But you'd think if that was going to happen we wouldn't be where we are right now.