He wanted a more carrot and stick approach. Why because the other option raises the possibility of a nuclear war.   The more countries that have nuclear weapons also raises the possibility of a nuclear war.  Taking this (February 2018) statement to be true (based on CIA info):  North Korea WARNING: Former US General warns World War 3 is a 'matter of months' away NORTH KOREA could be only a few months away from attacking the United States with nuclear weapons, according to former United States Army General Jack Keane.   What carrots and sticks do you think Soros would employ in a few months time?  By accepting a hostile NK having nuclear weapons (threatening US), should we have continued with strategic patience policy?  Send a gift basket of concessions?    We've seen strong talk before that Soros didn't seem to have problem with:   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/26/barack-obama-warns-north-korea-over-nuclear-testing  Barack Obama has warned North Korea that the United States "will not hesitate to use our military might" to defend allies, condemning the actions of "a pariah state that would rather starve its people than feed their hopes and dreams" and characterizing the 38th parallel dividing the two Koreas as "freedom's frontier".  "North Korea's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons is a path that leads only to more isolation," the president said on a visit to South Korea that coincides with signs from the North of a fourth nuclear test. Obama raised the possibility of further sanctions if a test goes ahead.  The Obama administration demanded North Korea release an American college student sentenced Wednesday to 15 years of hard labor for allegedly pilfering a propaganda banner as a souvenir.  https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/03/15/north-korea-american-tourist-sentenced/81846432/    Maybe addressing the problem in 2013 (without the canopy of Soros' obsessive philosophical global meddling) could have changed the course that NK took.  We'll never know, and perhaps Soros and Obama accepted NK as an inevitable nuclear power long ago, seeking instead to plan for investments and mining strategies within NK, (that's just a guess).  Tuesday's bombshell Washington Post story that the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has determined North Korea is capable of constructing miniaturized nuclear weapons that could be used as warheads for missiles – possibly ICBMs – left out a crucial fact: DIA actually concluded this in 2013.  The Post also failed to mention that the Obama administration tried to downplay and discredit this report at the time.  During an April 11, 2013, House Armed Services Committee hearing, Congressman Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., inadvertently revealed several unclassified sentences from a DIA report that said DIA had determined with “moderate confidence” that North Korea has the capability to make a nuclear weapon small enough to be launched with a ballistic missile.  The Director of National Intelligence and Obama officials subsequently tried to dismiss Lamborn’s disclosure by claiming the DIA assessment was an outlier that did not reflect the views of the rest of the U.S. Intelligence Community.   It was clear what Obama officials were doing in 2013.  The DIA report represented inconvenient facts that threatened President Obama’s North Korea “strategic patience” policy -- a policy to do nothing about North Korea and kick this problem down the road to the next president.  Obama officials tried to downplay the DIA assessment to prevent it from being used to force the president to employ a more assertive North Korea policy.   It’s worth noting that the Trump White House has not condemned the Washington Post story as a leak.  That’s probably because it was an authorized disclosure of classified information to advance President Trump’s North Korea strategy.  That is, instead of concealing intelligence to avoid taking action against the tough North Korea problem like the Obama administration did, the Trump administration publicized this same intelligence to demonstrate the seriousness of this threat and why decisive action by the United States is required.   http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/08/09/obama-administration-knew-about-north-koreas-miniaturized-nukes.html