Marine Le Pen is bent on making her party respectable and finds her father's continually provocative interventions before the press to be in a growing hindrance.
Pillars of the state, such as the Office of Government Ethics, were accustomed to compliance from the White House and ill-equipped to counter open defiance.
So, potentially, we will hear very little response from North Korea if they are not seeing exactly what these very visual and what they believe to be provocative military drills are.