There is no question that a military conflict with the United States would be devastating to North Korea, but at what expense? Seoul...an aircraft carrier...,the State of Hawaii?
I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. I was young, very interested in current events and enamored with President Kennedy.
I remember when Kennedy ran for president. He spoke outside our church in BrooklyIn. Just before he finished his short speech, I ran to a corner where I thought he would pass in his open car and waited. I lucked out. His car passed where I was hoping it would. I was the only one on that street corner. I waved, he waved back. For a brief moment, we looked at each other. My only claim to having met a future president.
October, 1962. I still remember the tension in the air. Seeing the movement of troops on TV. Walter Cronkite. Watching President Kennedy firmly citing the Monroe Doctrine as a basis for an eyeball to eyeball, toe to toe confrontation with the Soviet Union, what President Reagan would later call, the Evil Empire.
