Have I mentioned that your president is a madman?

Donald Trump has declared that North Korea still poses an “extraordinary threat” to the United States, just days after saying that the country’s nuclear program no longer constituted a danger.

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It states that “the existence and risk of proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material” and the actions and policies of the North Korean government “continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States”.

  The Guardian

June 13 - "No longer a nuclear threat"
June 23 - "Unusual and extraordinary threat"

Paraphrasing the words of Sir Thomas Moore in Robert Bolt's A Man for All Seasons, let's just hope that when his head stops spinning it's facing front again. Not to mention his cult followers.  If they even have heads.

In an executive order on Friday, the president extended for one year the so-called “national emergency” with respect to the nuclear-armed nation, re-authorizing economic restrictions against it.

What are the North Koreans to think? If Trump "won" the nuclear weapons threat battle, why are they still being sanctioned?

Let me guess what happened here: Trump had a photo op with Kim Jong Un and pretended to have dealt away the threat of nuclear war in an attempt to get a Nobel Peace Prize nomination (like Obama), and then the world found out what he's doing to asylum-seeking families and their children; the Nobel Prize people made a statement condemning that policy, he saw his plans for a prize go down the drain, so he has to start over with Korea. About right? (Kim never gave up his nukes, by the way. Nor did he promise to do so.)

Trump claimed at a cabinet meeting Thursday that denuclearization had already begun, although his defense secretary, James Mattis, told reporters a day earlier that he wasn’t aware that North Korea had taken any steps yet toward denuclearization, and that detailed negotiations have not yet begun.

I expect Mattis will be ordered to quit talking to reporters.

This reversal took slightly longer than his three-day reversal on immigration legislation, so, no record here.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.