Pyongyang
North Korea’s missile tech advances mean we’ve already passed the point where the U.S. could easily launch preemptive strikes. Pyongyang may even have a first-strike capability.
South Korea’s president heads to the White House this week asking for more nuclear protection from the U.S. while desperately avoiding pressure to step up against Putin.
New details have emerged about a menacing weapons of mass destruction arsenal in a country not exactly known for friendly relations with the U.S.
But it could cost him control of North Korea.
Kim Jong Un’s strategy is obvious to almost everyone but Donald Trump: Use nuclear weapons as threat and deterrence while the North intimidates and encroaches on the South.
North Korea's acting ambassador to Rome, whose defection was reported last week, won't be welcome in Seoul lest he offend Kim Jong Un and scuttle Trump's second-summit plans.
The administration needs something to show Kim Jong Un will keep at least one of the commitments from the schmoozefest in Singapore last month. But Trump keeps paying up front.