Eugene Robinson: Time for Trump to Be More Realistic About N. Korea; You Don’t Just Go and Take Away Their Nukes

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ROBINSON: "I hope this sort of standoff with North Korea doesn’t get to a crisis point that it doesn’t need to get to. General McMaster, in particular, has been increasingly sort of apocalyptic in the way he speaks about it and we’re getting closer an closer to war and it’s just kind of our last chance and that sort of thing. But if you step back, I mean, what he’s saying, essentially, is that a nuclear armed North Korea is intolerable, yet that’s what we have. I mean, that is the situation right now and so I think it’s time for the administration’s rhetoric to more realistically take that in hand. You don’t just go take the nuclear weapons away from a nuclear armed nation unless you have some trick way of doing it that I don’t know about."