principally japan and south korea, and instead of sending that reassuring signal which general mattis did e vmpventual send, the defense secretary, president trump seemed to g after the south koreans two way, one, accusing them of appeasement, and the other sending a signal he wants to renegotiate or leave our free-trade agreement with south korea. the timing for that in the middle of a crisis like this defies logic p. the problem, obviously, is deciding what to do, you usually are working with a set of facts, a set of facts we don t have about kim jong-un. the intelligence on him is sketchy. one analyst said we don t even know what he has for breakfast let alone what he s thinking in the middle of all this. sanctions haven t worked in the past. the new york times points out mr. kim has paid a very small price, if any, for the seib attack that took out 77% of sony pictures three years ago, no retaliation for attacks on south korea s banks, no retaliation for suspected theft of mone