Trump’s Sound and Fury Over Kim’s Nuke Threats
Ralph Peters has an itchy nuclear trigger finger (“Striking North Korea,” Aug. 10). If Japan and South Korea don’t want to take action, why should we?
The United States should concentrate on making sure we can knock out any missile Kim Jong-un aims at us.
If and only when he launches something against us, then Peters can have his way. James Terminiello Mount Laurel
I find it mind-boggling that supposedly intelligent people in our government are so upset that President Trump answered that little fat nut who has been threatening our country and others with nukes by warning him to stop the threats or “be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”
I applaud Trump. Cronin Miller Brooklyn
Wake up, America. In land mass, North Korea is the size of Pennsylvania and heavily mountainous. Its population is smaller than that of Texas. Satellite images show South Korea lit up brightly at night while North Korea is completely dark.
Do we really believe a country this small and impoverished designed and built nuclear-tipped ICBMs when it can’t illuminate its cities at night?
North Korea is unquestionably a pawn of China, which is its sugar daddy pretending to have no control over it. Art Messenger Scarsdale
President Trump said any further threat to the United States by North Korea would be met with fire and fury. Within hours, North Korea threatened Guam.
We are now in the wholly avoidable situation where Kim Jong-un may reasonably believe that US red lines are all empty bluster, increasing the odds of catastrophic miscalculation on either side.
Trump’s made-for-TV tough talk may feel good emotionally, but it’s a serious strategic blunder. Eric Hagemann Brooklyn
If Trump is using words that Kim Jong-un can understand, then the North Korean dictator is doing better than most of us. Dennis Fitzgerald Box Hill, Australia
Trump gave North Korea the sternest warning one could give. Ron Zajicek Cortlandt Manor