argyle5663 - it's not a game of chicken though and the "blink" may include nuclear war.  Pretty hard on the south Koreans, Chinese, Japanese, and the many innocent North Koreans just trying to get along.  NOt to mention the rest of us as nuclear dust doesn't stay put.

Funny thing is if Kim Jong-un had made the speech Trump did, threatening to destroy a nation of 26 million people, demanding democracy in Venezuela, threatening a nuclear deal Iran made with 6 other nations and the UN - no one wold quibble the speaker was dangerously insane.

Yes when a US president behaves as recklessly - some simply can't see it.  Including Trump himself, of course.

China and Russia called for a freeze for freeze in which both USA and NKorea stop their belligerence - that is what sane leaders would at least try before threatening death.  And yes, surrounding NKorea with military and playing war games that include taking out the leader of NKorea as the US is doing IS belligerence.