No doubt he inflames the situation.  But one thing I do like is now China and Russia are engaged.  Considering how Korea became North and South (pawns of our and Russia's cold war), N. Korea naturally looks to them as allies.  The policy that I dislike is this constant stone throwing at both China and Russia, like we're some angels and they're evil.  Reality is our hands are as dirty as theirs, even more so than China, when it comes to nasty foreign policy.  Granted, they don't have the "free democracy", but that's their business.  The cold war ended long ago, and they're not beating down our door to turn us into them.  You could say that Russian meddling was exactly that, but I believe that was more tied to the sanctions against Russia.

My point is, we need to learn to play nice with countries different than us, let their business be their's, and work with them towards resolution.  We could've started this talk with both countries back around 2000.