The propaganda about this guy is the same as his father and grandfather (a real monster). Forgive me for being skeptical.
I don't want another war in Korea with thousands of US GI’s sitting ducks. The thing I like about Trump is that he MAY reign in the war mongers.
What concerns us is how unstable the whole situation is. When even insiders have trouble figuring out where the purge is heading, putting everybody on the edge, and he goes full throttle in his nuclear program, he is making the situation unstable.
It is mostly up to China to determine which way this problem will be heading. Even shutting down oil supply for a few months will have real impact, but they are keeping N. Korea alive. In a way, the real problem is not N. Korea but China. Everybody knows it but pretends that N. Korean problem is an separate issue.
So Trump can indeed tackle this problem without going into a full-scale war by taking on China on trade issue and attaching N. Korean problem as a side package.
But I get a sense that it will scare more Americans than going to war with N. Korea, not because China is a bigger military power, but they fear that their meal ticket will be somehow in jeopardy.