It seemed inevitable that Trump would soon face the same challenge his predecessors did: how to deal with North Korea without prompting a broader war. He would confront issues that had been long debated in the Situation Room: whether to order the escalation of the Pentagon’s cyber- and electronic-warfare effort, crack down again on trade with crushing economic sanctions, open negotiations with the North to freeze its nuclear and missile programs, or prepare for direct missile strikes on its nuclear and missile sites. It seemed clear to me that, still lacking a strategy, Trump’s answer would
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