Competence deficit

Based on the reviews of the administration's "tax reform" plan, it would seem it is DOA in Congress even if it is revised and expanded beyond the one sheet of double spaced talking points the Treasury secretary used in his introduction.  Most pundits simply laughed.   Meanwhile, the citizens of South Korea and Japan are bracing for possible nuclear attacks by North Korea as tRump ups the rhetoric directed at the renegade regime.  I'm not sure there is any long range solution to this problem that doesn't include military action.   However, the bellicose and uninformed blatherings of Trump administration spokesmen, including the president have raised a simmering problem to the boiling point.  As previous administrations have learned to their sorrow, North Korea is effectively holding 20 million residents of Seoul hostage.  The artillery placed on the border less than 20 miles from South Korea's capital could effectively level the city and kill millions before being taken out by allied strikes.  Plus, the ability of the North to launch short range missiles with nuclear warheads to hit Japan adds to the unacceptability of military action.  Let's hope The Donald is not as stupid as it would appear.