To the editor: "Better to jaw jaw than war war,” Winston Churchill. Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un is a potentially positive step in moving away from military conflict with North Korea. At the same time, we must be realistic about outcomes.

To the editor: I'm glad that economic sanctions are sometimes used as an alternative to war, but I think there is a better way of using sanctions than the way we are using them now. As far as I know, the current method we use is to impose sanctions and leave them in place until the targeted government changes policy due to the hardships created by the sanctions.