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How Trump can contain North Korea without 'fire and fury'

The only solution is a multipronged strategy aimed at containing the threat posed by North Korea

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US President Donald Trump said recently that dealing with steel was no longer a top priority. (Photo: Reuters)

Evelyn N Farkasaug | NYT
For decades North Korea threatened American “imperialists” and our South Korean allies with a “sea of fire” and retribution for trying to contain their conventional and nuclear weapons projects. North Korean leaders have made as much noise as a small yappy dog confronting a placidly tolerant Rottweiler trying to take away its nuclear bone.

President Trump, seemingly oblivious to America’s dominant military, economic and political status, has borrowed from North Korean state media scripts by bombastically threatening Pyongyang on Tuesday with “fire and fury” and an unspecified assault “the likes of which this world has never seen before.” Since the world

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