Sometimes a war drum is a war drum.

Kim Jon Un may well have been beating his war drum to whip up the North Korean population's patriotic fervour....certainly President Trump  cannot be accused of that , the US population is unstirrable in that regard, anti patriotism seems to be the prevailing mood amongst the elites, the self styled inteloigencia.

One cannot take the promises of tyrants such as Jon Un seriously, but one should take their threats seriously....President Trump is...and if Jon Un miscalculates President Trump ( who is not a perennial bluffer as Obama) will follow the advice of his military advisors and hit hard...not soft...hard!

Mao described previous US Presidents and the USA of that eras as " paper tigers"...President Trump will not be known as such.