I'll see your bet and raise three nukes

.    The last thing I heard from the radio before I fell asleep last night was Trump claiming his tough talk was the reason North and South Korea are talking these days.
     The first thing I heard on waking up this morning was ballistic missiles were heading for Hawaii.
Put that together for a minute.
     First thought was sitting in a remote situation far from any likely target, I probably didn't have an immediate problem, except maybe given the reliability of North Korea's missiles, I might take a direct hit, but my danger would most likely be exposure to radiation somewhere down the line.
Then the thought process came in how we might have gotten to this point.
That too might be credited to Trump's tough talk. He said it like that was his idea all along. Given all his temperamental tweets, that's unlikely.
     Regardless, his "tough talk" probably caused more concern in this country than North Korea, especially those of us on the exposed West Coast.
It's not a game of poker, you don't bluff with nuclear weapons, period. Tough talk, indeed could have gone either way. Two hot heads comparing the size of their buttons is not the way toward resolution, it is the way to destruction that could spread worldwide. Once again, YOU DO NOT BLUFF WITH  NUCLEAR WEAPONS. The fact they exist is enough.
      How deep is the fear in this country and how believable is a missile threat? One friend of mine on facebook who is vacationing in Hawaii  wrote about feeling that threat and in the helplessness of the situation she did the only thing she could think of: She called her family to tell them she loved them.
     I don’t have the answer to this, but I wonder if it would have been as terrfying if we took Trump’s sabre rattling out of the picture. I recall during the Obama terms, North Korean threats were greeted with some hilarious memes ridiculing Kim and the NC military. I haven’t seen one attempt at humor this time around.
     So who created that kind of concern among Americans? Of course there is Kim Jon Un in Korea but the one who escalated with his supposed bluff is right here in this country and he lives in a big house while the rest of us pay the rent and one day we may pay dearly. Bluff, indeed.