Trump Finds Asian Allies Cool to U.S. Attack on North Korea
- Japan, South Korea may get pummeled if Kim Jong Un retaliates
- Xi urges Trump to find peaceful resolution through talks
Larry Summers Questions the Wisdom of Threatening China
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U.S. President Donald Trump is finding little support among his Asian allies -- both publicly and behind the scenes -- as he weighs a military attack on North Korea after unilaterally firing missiles on Syria.
Any attack on Kim Jong Un’s regime -- even a limited strike on weapons facilities -- risks catastrophic blowback on some of Asia’s biggest economies. It could threaten to trigger a U.S. war with China and leave the capitals of allies South Korea and Japan at risk of destruction, the same calculation that has helped maintain an uneasy peace since the Korean War in the 1950s.