Trump's Korea Policy is a Fast-Forward, Stupider Version of Bush's
Trump had virtually no understanding of the North Korea issue, thought he did, and has now been exposed as having no policy at all. Even worse, he’s shown himself on the international stage to be someone who casually issues threats he almost never follows through on. In other words, he’s a paper tiger, a fact that further devalues the generalized deterrent threat the US always carried with it virtually everywhere in the world.
Beyond the ego gratification of ‘being tough’ and ‘showing resolve’ it is difficult to imagine any policy producing worse results than what the Bush policy produced.