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. Anxiety is especially acute among liberals who fear that President Trump’s confrontational rhetoric could upset the balance that has maintained a tense peace on the Korean peninsula for decades. “By any measure President Trump’s quote-unquote ‘strategy’ is not working,” said Michael Fuchs, who was a deputy assistant secretary of State during the Obama administration. “This is squarely in the hands of the president himself,” Fuchs, who is now a senior fellow at the liberal Center for American Progress, added. “The rest of his administration, so far at least, seems willing to carry out a strategy focused on deterrence, reassurance, pressure and diplomacy. On Thursday, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) suggested in an interview with a San Diego television station that the North Koreans might soon be able to strike the west coast of the United States with a nuclear weapon. Experts sympathetic to the line pursued by Trump argue that the threat from North Korea has existed for decades — and has been exacerbated by a lack of meaningful action against it. “We have the pressure.