It's what the Chinese or the Russians might do that should be the administration's primary consideration. It won't be apparently direct or connected with the kick in the shins, but the various means of retaliation available to the Chinese or the Russians can impose quite a hardship on American business. Surprising how little we're hearing from the titans of industry about how the Trump administration is damaging the American brand all over the world.

...letting Trump know that a "limited attack" will be seen by them as an act of war, just as they have said a "pre-emptive" nuclear strike would be.

for how to survive a nuclear detonation. Be afraid, the world may be ending soon.

NK has been that crazy guy in the back of the room for years that will say things but you know never will go through w/ it. Heck they "declared war on the US" when Obama was President. Did we see Obama get on twitter and declare that the US has a bigger military than you now we will show you? No, he ignored them like any sane person would. All the NK hype has come about b/c Trump stopped ignoring them like everyone else had and acted like we had failed in our foreign policy regarding them. Its my opinion that the failure will come when Trump uses a strategy like this thinking they wont respond, and they do. I for one am very concerned when reading this, cause I believe that Trump's ego will lead him to believe NK wont respond b/c why would they challenge us w/ our massive military? And when they do respond, well then you have to go to war, which would likely escalate to bringing in most of that region into the conflict as a proxy war.

Oh, yeah, I'm sure Kim will just accept that and move on.