North Korea
If North Korea's angry little dictator Kim Jong Un is rational he will conclude that threatening the use of bombs and mssiles is dangerous and back off before he miscalculates and finds himself and his regime blown into the ashes of history where they belong.
On the other hand, if he is irrational, as appears not improbable, he may actually set off a spark which will have the same happy result for the world. The only course for him which offers safety for now is to back off.
The world will lose, however, by asking for talks which, as always, raises the question "talk about what"? If the past two hundred years offers any lesson it is that dictators intent on aggression, whether crazy or not, are deterred or removed only by force or its threat, and nothing else --- ever, except by the surrender by their intended victims to their demands. It gets tiresome to have to learn that lesson over and over. War is horrible. The surrender of a nation's honour and vital interests to some sociopathological nut case is worse
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