Each time the United States engages with North Korea in anything other than saber-rattling, Pyongyang uses that reprieve to enhance its nuclear weapons arsenal.

Other foreign policy experts believe that if North Korea cannot be trusted with nukes (it can’t), and if there can’t be a constructive diplomacy between North Korea and the rest of the world, then American military force - another Korean War - is the only answer. These analysts are wrong, too.

With the creation of the U.S. Space Force, America finally has the infrastructure necessary to surge development of space-based missile defense.

The U.S. military doesn’t have to invade North Korea to remove its nuclear threat. Deploying a reliable space-based missile defense system would render whatever advantages Mr. Kim believes he possesses with his newfangled nuclear weapons arsenal obsolete.

The goal of creating this new space-based defense system would be simply to defend the United States and its allies from the North Korean nuclear threat - without ever placing U.S. troops in harm’s way.

Mr. Trump(America) should immediately take to the airwaves (and Twitter) and call for a new Manhattan Project, this time for space-based missile defense.

Former President Reagan attempted a similar endeavor during the Cold War with his Strategic Defense Initiative (aka “Star Wars”). He was ridiculed and stymied from within the bureaucracy.

To be fair, also, it is likely the technology was not yet mature enough to yield the kind of results that were needed to defend the United States against the former Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons arsenal.