Trump's North Korean Missile Crisis

The Political Scene | The New Yorker | Aug 3, 2017

Last Friday, the regime of Kim Jong-un tested an intercontinental ballistic missile that may be capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to U.S. soil. Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss how the Trump Administration is facing its greatest foreign-policy challenge: a hostile totalitarian regime with nuclear weapons. What can be done to avoid a calamitous showdown?

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