Is the Trump administration winging it on North Korea and Kim Jong-un?

After several days of befuddlement, I’ve finally coined a term for President Trump’s North Korea policy: strategic incoherence.

How else can one describe the Trump administration’s rhetoric on the North Korean nuclear issue? Pinpointing a single approach to the problem is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. Except this time, those of us who study politics or foreign policy for a living are left with digging through the hay on a fool’s errand, coming away with nothing to show for it.