In the face of a nuclear holocaust

THE escalating war of words between Washington and Pyongyang sets a dangerous precedent that could easily evolve into a nuclear holocaust, raising the need for cooler heads to intervene and douse the inflamed passions of Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un before it’s too late.

The problem is that there are no cooler heads in sight, not in Beijing, not in Moscow—despite their voices of concern in trying to pacify the US President and the North Korean leader—and certainly not in Seoul and in Tokyo as the Japanese and South Korean defense forces are now scrambling to head off the worst-case scenario of Pyongyang launching another Hwasong intercontinental ballistic missile aimed at Guam, 3,432 kilometers southeast of North Korea.