Road to Armageddon in Asia

Just last week we have seen US bombed the Syrian airbase  with 59 cruise missiles that US believed where chemical weapons were launched by the Assad regime against civilians in rebel held territory during the dinner hosted by Donald Trump for Chinese President Xi. Reports have since emerged that both presidents had long and  informal talks about North Korea during those days. The Syrian bombing have demonstrated that Donald Trump is more than willing to use military forces to make a point. President Trump has ordered the US carrier Carl Vinson to the Korean Peninsula and other military assets in Pacific on standby while President Xi has ordered 150000 troops to the Korean border should indicate both presidents had joined in an effort to pressure North Korean​ ruler Kim Jong Un to abandon it's provocative nuclear and missile ambition. The subsequent use of the biggest bomb ever developed by the US against ISIS in Afghanistan put further message to North Korea that US can do much more damage than what the cruise missiles did to the Syrian airbase.

What options do US really have when dealing with North Korea ? We know US can only use its superior air power to strike at North Korean nuclear and missile facilities. Any follow up action in North Korea will definitely be in coordination​ with the Chinese government since nobody knows what will happen in North Korea after such attack. There may be a total collapse of the regime in Pyongyang or Kim Jong Un may survive to lashes out against its neighbours China Japan South Korea and to a lesser extent  Russia with devastating results for the region and the rest of the world.

To execute any action against North Korea will risk major reprisals from Kim Jong Un unless his entire regime is killed and replaced with more moderate figures​. Such possible person was his half brother Kim Jong Nam whose murder in Kuala Lumpur may have pushed his son who has since been in hiding under the protection of the Chinese government in China into the political struggle to take over the dynasty established by his great grandfather Kim Il Sung.

Now what is needed is the trigger from North Korea to set the world in collision with Armageddon in Asia.