Of course, God wants us to deal with evil, but I think it is arrogant to claim to know exactly what God has directed in a specific situation.
May God guide and protect our president. MAGA
But you must surely notice that the authority doesn’t mean the orders to exercise its prerogatives.
That would be a confusion on your part if you don’t notice it. Not on the part of Trump’s advisor, and most certainly not arrogance on his part either.
As a head of a state capable of it, Trump is inextricably involved with classic “just war” considerations.
And also your line could result in fatal equivocation and dilly dallying.
I would take the assertion made as “IF Kim jong-il proves dangerously intransigent (i.e. this is about danger, not about a pissing contest) after all warnings about what we have the right to do, THEN we have the right to do all those things.”