President Kennedy sought to avoid bringing an adversary to the choice of either a humiliating defeat or a nuclear war.
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Commentary: Fear strikes Guam, despite its familiarity with military conflict
Threats flying between North Korea and the U.S. make the island’s people angry about being pawns.
North Korea dismisses Trump’s response to its threat to fire 4 missiles at Guam
The president boasts about America’s atomic supremacy while his aides waver between alarm and reassurance.
Another View: Turn to cyber operations to thwart North Korea’s nuclear ambitions
The U.S. should crash North Korea’s electric grid, repeatedly if necessary.
Charles Krauthammer: We’re running out of time to stop a nuclear North Korea
We still have cards to play, but each is dangerous and highly unpredictable.
Another View: Mistreatment of U.S. student should not go unpunished
This was outrageous behavior even by the standards of one of the world’s most vicious and isolated regimes.
Dennis Rodman gives Kim Jong Un ‘The Art of the Deal’
Giving the North Korean leader the 1987 book that lays out the principles of Trump’s success may be a genius move.
U.S. official met with 3 more Americans still held in North Korea
All were found to be in a healthy condition under the circumstances, a source says.
North Korea releases American student, now in a coma, after 17 months
The University of Virginia student had been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for trying to steal a propaganda poster while on a trip to the country.
North Korea detains U.S. citizen, the 3rd now held there
It’s unclear why accounting professor Tony Kim was picked up, although the two countries have traded war threats in recent weeks.