Trump’s aggression toward North Korea wrong, but doing nothing hasn’t worked either

Diplomacy didn’t work for the last 60 years. The Korean problem was already there on Jan.19, 2017, when Donald Trump was just a really rich real estate agent.

You might not like Donald Trump's approach to North Korea, but it's not like any of his predecessors had it figured out either, writes Angelo Persichilli.Photograph by Gage Skidmore

Opinion

BY ANGELO PERSICHILLI

April 24, 2017

TORONTO—Now that Donald Trump has (probably) sent the U.S. fleet towards North Korea, “pacifists” and some academics are up in arms against the “warmongering” American president. One recent headline in The Globe and Mail said, “Only diplomacy can cool the Korean penin...

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