Days after President Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury,” tensions have remained high. On Thursday, the president doubled down on his warning, suggesting that perhaps his first comment wasn’t “tough enough.”

Senior administration officials have sent mixed messages on the subject, with Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson stressing diplomacy and telling Americans that they “should sleep well at night,” while Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said North Korea risked “the end of its regime and the destruction of its people” if it did not “stand down.”

What follows is a collection of writing from across the political spectrum responding to the developments.

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