Just because it is not identical to your cherry picked examp

Posted on: August 30, 2017 at 09:18:37 CT

le does not mean it was not a red line.

I consider any such "If"... "then"... type of threat to be a red line.

Here is the "if" statement:

"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States."

and in that context, within 3 hours North Korea clearly makes a big threat against the United States & releases a video with U.S. officials engulfed in flames and Trump looking out over a cemetery:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/08/21/north-koreas-latest-video-tirade-reignites-missile-threat-against-guam/?utm_term=.77006a0affaf

In this excerpt from a North Korean propaganda video, senior U.S. officials are seen engulfed in flames with President Trump looking over a cemetery with the warning: “The fate of the U.S., with its many crimes, ends here.” (The Washington Post)

I don't see how that can reasonably be interpreted as anything other than a red line threat by Trump, which was immediately crossed by North Korea. A clear thumbing of the nose to Trump's threat.

I think Trump let his mouth run away from him again and embarrassing himself thereby.