Citation needed. Sanctions placed on the DPRK under the current administration are not more intense than those under previous administrations. The World Food Program, which analyzes the food security of North Korea, reports the food situation in North Korea is continuing to gradually improve. Current sanctions target various North Korean exports and the import of oil, natural gas, and textiles, but not food. DPRK agricultural production in 2017 was higher than it was in 2015. Additionally, the DPRK has gone through massive food shortages before without a regime change. Between 1994 and 1998, between 5-10% of the population died from starvation, and yet no regime change.

We do know (from press reports) that the President has been getting China to cooperate on trade with NK. Are those reports correct, and has China not cheated? I don't know, but if you recall when Chinese and NK oil tankers were caught doing oil transfers on the high seas, you might agree that the U.S. administration is probably keeping good tabs on that. Evidently they (China, DPRK) must be taking Trump seriously. How seriously is yet to be seen -- there is not yet a deal, and we'll have to see, for perhaps they are still trying to play the U.S., and the Administration might fall for whatever Xi and Kim have in mind.

Starving NK can definitely be arranged. First you make sure they cannot trade, then you wait for things to get bad. The NK economy will not thrive and almost certainly will go south. As to how much starvation is needed for regime change, I don't know, but unlike Clinton and Bush, Trump can be believed that he'll not buckle, and that he'll provide no food aid.

Do you think Trump could get America to go Metric?

I'm kinda trolling but not really.

It occurred to me a week or two ago that he, of all people, might actually be able to switch US to the Metric System and make it stick.

If he were somehow motivated that this was in our interest, I think he maybe he could.

I think the difference between Trump and most other politicians is not the level of BS, but that he's always winking. I've often heard that his supporters don't take him literally, but take him seriously, and his haters take him literally, but not seriously. I think there's a lot of truth to that, and despite the carpet bombing of propaganda and hatred from the MSM won't be able to cover up forever that he's accomplished some good things.

Switch to the metric system? I'm all for it. I doubt it rises to the level of the President's attention, honestly. It might not be until we get an engineer or scientist as President that we switch.