For those whose experience with war consists of WWII movies or modern computer games, the notion of totally destroying a country may sound exciting. A country however is not merely some picture on a map. In the case of North Korea, it’s 25 million people. Old folks, parents and kids.
This was no “deeply philosophical address”. And hardly a show of “principled realism” – as spun by the White House. President Trump at the UN was “American carnage,” to borrow a phrase previously deployed by his nativist speechwriter Stephen Miller.
One should allow the enormity of what just happened to sink in, slowly. The president of the United States, facing the bloated bureaucracy that passes for the “international community,” threatened to “wipe off the map” the whole of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (25 million people). And may however many millions of South Koreans who perish as collateral damage be damned. Read more here.