No one is expecting Trump to be smart enough to have a solution to this, or pretty much any, important problem.
We are just hoping he's sufficiently self-conscious not to start tweeting unenforceable statements so he can grandstand and make himself feel important.
Its a low bar to clear, but apparently even that is too much for him.

So for the geniuses in the LR, given all the strategies employed by his predecessors have failed gloriously, what exactly would you suggest Trump does now?

No one is blaming Trump, NK has been a problem for a long time.

I think people are concerned because Trump has never shown any interest in foreign policy anywhere in the world. He said earlier that China was going to do great things to help with North Korea, after a single conversation, and of course they didn't. He seemed surprised by that. Trump doesn't seem to have any idea of what China wants or any interest in trying to figure it out.

Trump sees the world in black and white and this isn't a black and white issue. There are a lot of factors in play including how China would react to a strike against NK, the risk in South Korea and the other countries close by, the role of Russia and the Western allies etc.

It also doesn't help Trumps credibility, or inspire confidence, when he spends so much time on Twitter while these problems are brewing.

Fair enough. My point is you're not serious about this. What "smart" President before Trump had the solution?

My interest is pointing out that Trump's grandstanding is no different than the other's grandstanding. They just do it with big words and suave. Hey, if that makes you feel better, good on you, but neither achieves results.

The sooner we all realize this, the sooner we might actually get a candidate that's not a liar and who can actually bring our country together.

Because previous candidates didn't pretend that North Korea and the Middle East had easy solutions. Almost 1500 years of Muslim conflict in the Middle East won't be solved easily. 50 years of NK/Russia/China nuclear proliferation will not have an easy solution. In fact, I think it is reasonable to believe that these situations don't have any solution in the normal sense of the word.

I actually don't really blame Trump for saying it. I blame him for apparently believing it himself and his believers for buying it.

I'm waiting to see what Canada does to deal with the problem.

Well, we don't have anyone as qualified as Trump so you have that going for you.

Or a military that can project strategic power.

Well then no Canadians should be allowed to speak about North Korea. That goes for every person in every country in the world except the U.S, Russia and China and people in England and France can say a little but not too much.

Carry on.

Oh you can talk all you want, you just can't do anything about it. Sleep tight tonight under the security umbrella I pay for. //

You mean Japan and China pays for, or the other countries that are loaning us the money to fund a bloated military. It is possible that none of your tax dollars go to funding the military...

Oh you can talk all you want, you just can't do anything about it.

Unless you're in the military stationed near NK, or maybe in the Special Ops or making decisions in Washington, there's not a lot you can do about it either.

It's okay though, Trump's on it.

I am pretty sure that harshly worded tweets will put an end to this issue.

The problems are that NK is rogue and China does not want millions of refugees. I see three potential outcomes to choose from:

1. Kim is overthrown

2. China works covertly to quell Kim and help improve relations with the US

3. Limited military strikes at NK.

I think door #2 works best.

I meant the collective you as in the impotent Canadian military ... what strategic platforms do you have?

Oh you can talk all you want, you just can't do anything about it. Sleep tight tonight under the security umbrella I pay for.

Hey why don't you guys stop asking for our help if we're so useless?

I used to say give a guy enough rope and he'll hang himself, but you only continue to stretch your neck further and look even more silly than you do on your anti Cuba/Castro rants. There is fuck all that can be done about North Korea. They're a little kid under a little kid dictator puffing up trying to be a big kid and nothing more and he's not stupid enough to start a war with the west as he knows he'd get destroyed but we also know not first without doing huge damage to SK. But he can continue to be a pain in the ass, albeit an impotent one. You're not going to have a USA backed coup in NK. Like that's worked out well so many times before. Ain't gonna happen. Might as well send Dennis Rodman back over for some basketball diplomacy.

Hey why don't you guys stop asking for our help if we're so useless?