Trump tweets that 'talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!'
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President Trump issued his reaction to North Korea's claim of a successful hydrogen bomb in a series of Twitter posts early Sunday.
Trump did not specify the "one thing," but National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said last month that preventive war — a strike made not in the face of an imminent threat, as in pre-emptive war, but to prevent potential future attack — is on the table.
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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.
