You know, for someone who said that the time for talk is over, trump sure does a lot of it.  He's pAinting himself into a corner by suggesting the only real option is a military one.  

It's interesting that many commenters think the only options here are total appeasement or brute force.   In fact there are a range of other options, all of which require some level of tact, strategy and diplomacy.

I continue to believe the key is economic pressure.  Not more meaningless sanctions on things n Korea doesn't need, but sitting down with china and thrashing out a solution wherein the n Korean regime doesn't get the energy it needs.  We might also try to determine the regimes sources of funding and cut those off.  

  It won't be pretty and it won't be flashy and it will take some time, and the u.s. Will have to compromise and not gets everything it wants, but it's better than war.