Trump, time to sit down with Kim Jong Un

USA TODAY’s editorial “In Korea, no pre-emptive strike,” is correct — there shouldn’t be a military attempt to cripple North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. There should be, as the editorial advocates, a sustained cyber-attack designed to stymie an evolving global threat. But here’s the rub: China has only one eye on the North Korean nuclear threat while keeping the other on the American one. Thus, relying on China to sterilize the North Korean threat against us is like expecting good intentions to prevail over power politics. Let’s hope that our cyber spies are craftier than those in Pyongyang. Paul Bloustein Cincinnati

Anyone remember The Forgotten War, in which over 33,000 Americans lost their lives in battle? And who propped up the North Koreans in order to continue that war? China and Russia provided military power. So the Chinese and Russians are not our friends regardless of what you hear from either now. Korea should have been united decades ago but, again, the Chinese and Russians did not want it. Bombing North Korea would not change things but only make matters worse for those already suffering there. Kim Jong Un needs to be removed or nothing will change — except he might get lucky and send a bomb to the U.S.! Don E. Porter Oklahoma City