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North Korea Nuclear Ready

That makes no sense. He didn't act under Obama. NK has probably done more and more serious provocative acts in the short time Trump has been in office than the last three POTUS combined.

This was from April 26, 2016.

President Barack Obama delivered a stern warning to North Korea on Tuesday, reminding its “erratic” and “irresponsible” leader that America’s nuclear arsenal could “destroy” his country.

Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, claimed to have tested a submarine-launched missile last Saturday. A photograph showed the weapon flying out of the sea, although there was no independent confirmation that it had been fired from a submarine, as opposed to a sub-surface platform.
 
Tintin, that's about one event. Since Trump has taken office, Kim has been doing provocative actions almost weekly.No leader on the planet has any respect whatsoever for Trump. World leaders think he's a moron and can be easily played and they are correct.
 
look, Trump is a doofus, but to pretend that North Korean provocation is new since he took office is silly

they've been working on nuclear and ICBM capabilities for a long time, over the span of several U.S. presidents, and they have finally unlocked most, if not all, secrets

North Korean nuclear tests

October 2006
May 2009
February 2013
January 2016
September 2016 - North Korea announces a successful test of a warhead that can be mounted on a rocket
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us10006n8a#executive
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-northkorea-nuclear-idUKKCN11F02D

North Korean missile tests

2009 - Failed orbit of the Kwangmyongsong-2 satellite aboard an Unha-2 carrier rocket (April 5, 2009)
2009 North Korean missile test (July 4, 2009)
2012 - Failed launch of the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 satellite aboard an Unha-3 carrier rocket (April 13, 2012)
2012 - Successful launch of the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2 satellite aboard a three stage rocket (December 12, 2012)
2013 North Korean missile tests (May 18–20, 2013 - part of 2013 Korean crisis)
2014 North Korean missile tests (March 2014) including Nodong, success
2015- North Korea claims to launch a missile from a submarine (May 2015)
2016 - Successful launch of the Kwangmyŏngsŏng-4 satellite (Feb. 7, 2016)
2016 - Test of engine designed for an intercontinental ballistic missile (April, 2016)
2016 - North Korea claims to launch a Pukkuksong-1 missile capable of striking the United States (August 2016). The missile is a Submarine-launched ballistic missile.
2016 - Failed North Korean ballistic missile launch (Oct 15, 2016)
2016 – Failed launch of an intermediate-range missile (October 19, 2016)
 
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Lots of "claimed" and "failed" on that list.
 
Right. So what's your point?
 
clearly stated before the list

what's yours?

That Trump is the only President who has escalated things and threatened large scale retaliation.
 
That Trump is the only President who has escalated things and threatened large scale retaliation.

North Korea has been "escalating things" all by themselves

here's what South Korea had to say about the September nuclear test (from the Reuters article):

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Saturday that North Korea’s nuclear capability is expanding fast, echoing alarm around the world over the isolated state’s fifth and biggest nuclear test, carried out in defiance of U.N. sanctions.

North Korea conducted the test on Friday and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile, ratcheting up a threat that rivals and the United Nations have been powerless to contain.

The test showed North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was unwilling to alter course, and that tougher sanctions and pressure were needed to apply “unbearable pain on the North to leave no choice but to change”, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said.

“North Korea’s nuclear capability is growing and speeding to a considerable level, considering the fifth nuclear test was the strongest in scale and the interval has quickened substantially,” Yun told a ministry meeting convened to discuss the test.

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South Korea’s Park said late on Friday that Kim was “mentally out of control”, blind to all warnings from the world and neighbours as he sought to maintain power. “The patience of the international community has come to the limit,” she said.


Here's what China had to say from the same article:

In Beijing on Saturday, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhang Yesui told North Korea’s ambassador to China, Ji Jae Ryong, that the test was “not conducive to the peace and stability of the Korean peninsula”, China’s Foreign Ministry said.

“China urges North Korea not to take any more actions that could exacerbate tensions, and return as soon as possible to the correct direction of denuclearisation,” Zhang said.
 
it's pretty obvious that the threat of nuclear war is a lot higher with Trump in the WH. not sure you can realistically argue otherwise.
 
and, its pretty obvious that the threat of nuclear war is a lot higher when more bad guys have nuclear missiles. not sure you can realistically argue otherwise.
 
it's hard to tell these days. Trump is a bad hombre but is he a "bad guy with nuclear missiles"...idk
 
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