Ok, let me give you answer that you want so you can pretend that you have all the answers.

The options on the table to take down North Korean are A:) Massive multinational nuclear war that kills everyone on the planet. B:) Kim realizes he has been wrong all along and trades his nukes for hugs and everyone lives happy. C:)Let North Korean continue to develop their nuclear arsenal and become even more scary to people who don't understand high level military strategies and how they work.

I tried explaining earlier but you wanted to push your agenda instead of reading. Let me break it down again.

There is no such thing as a "broad stroke" strategy, all you can do is plan your initial engagement and then have contingency plans in place for as many outcomes of your initial plan as possible and then have as many plans for that as possible.

The book On Strategy said it best back in the later 1800s "No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force." and it still rings true today.