I believe the strategy the article is referring to, the one that needs a reality check, is Trump's strategy of hyperbole and bluster, bluff and double-dog-dare-ya's.

Stuff like that won't work with Kim Jong Un. No way. Would it work the other way around trying to out-bluster Trump? No way, either. So the US strategy has to stay what it has been, and they have to continue being patient.

And we all have skin in the game, by the way. If the two lunatics with the questionable haircuts actually decide to nuke it out, our skin will blister and boil with the fallout and freeze in the nuclear winter just the same as yours will.