Endgame.
Let's say that Kim, in a show of force, launches a test missile on a trajectory that would leave no doubt that North Korea could strike the U.S. mainland if it wanted to. When the generals report this test to Trump, he panics and orders a massive retaliation on North Korea. The generals consider mutiny against their Commander in Chief, but faced with an actual war scenario -- don't. American missiles get launched. Russian and Chinese radars pick up the ICBMs in flight near, or even possibly over their territory (look at a globe) and some commander still with an old Cold War mindset decides this is a use-'em-or-lose-'em scenario and lets fly with his own missiles. With Russian and/or Chinese missiles in flight toward the U.S., the old Mutually Assured Destruction playbooks come out and there is a massive exchange of nuclear weapons.
Game over.
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Relax, won't happen.
