Mostly Wrong That ‘We Get Practically Nothing’ from South Korea for U.S. Troop Presence,” PolitiFact, January 10, 2016.
“How long will we go on defending”: John Power, “Donald Trump’s Problem with the US-Korea Alliance,” The Diplomat, July 23, 2015.
And as president in 2017: Bob Woodward, Fear: Trump in the White House (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2018), 264.
“Fear,” candidate Trump: Ibid., front matter.
Trump the businessman: Niraj Chokshi, “The 100-Plus Times Donald Trump Assured Us That America Is a Laughingstock,” WP, January 27, 2016.
TWELVE: TESTING KIM
After a two-month policy review: Matthew Pennington, “Trump Strategy on NKorea: ‘Maximum Pressure and Engagement,’ ” AP, April 14, 2017.
Although Trump declared: @realDonaldTrump, June 30, 2018, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/880892632142143490.
Obama’s new measures: U.S. Mission to the United Nations, “Fact Sheet: Resolution 2371 (2017) Strengthening Sanctions on North Korea,” August 5, 2017, https://usun.usmission.gov/fact-sheet-resolution-2371-2017-strengthening-sanctions-on-north-korea/?_ga=2.75938005.1950839997.1564779402-587643110.1564779402.
The regime tested: Joby Warrick, “Experts: North Korea’s Missile Was a Real ICBM—and a Grave Milestone,” WP, July 4, 2017.
According to state media: Dagyum Ji, “North Korea Says ICBM Can Carry ‘Large-Size Heavy’ Nuclear Warhead,” NK News, July 5, 2017.
Alarmed and surprised: “Russia, China to N. Korea: Stop All Missile Tests,” The Straits Times, July 5, 2017.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: Elise Hu, “Tillerson Confirms North Korea Missile an ICBM, Calls for Global Action,” NPR, July 3, 2017.
He tweeted, “North Korea has”: @realDonaldTrump, July 3, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/882061157900718081.
In response to these condemnations: Foster Klug and Hyung-jin Kim, “Kim Vows North Korea’s Nukes Are Not on Negotiation Table,” AP, July 5, 2017.
In The Art of the Deal: Peter Economy, “11 Winning Negotiation Tactics from Donald Trump’s ‘The Art of the Deal,’ ” Inc., May 7, 2016.
A few years later: Glenn Plaskin, “Donald Trump,” Playboy, March 1, 1990.
During his June 2017 trip: Anna Fifield, “Dennis Rodman Just Gave Kim Jong Un ‘The Art of the Deal.’ And It May Be a Genius Move,” WP, June 15, 2017.
In August 2017: “N. Korea Threatens ‘Physical’ Actions over New U.N. Sanctions,” Yonhap News Agency, August 8, 2017.
While at his golf club: Karen DeYoung and John Wagner, “Trump Threatens ‘Fire and Fury’ in Response to North Korean Threats,” WP, August 8, 2017.
A few days later: @realDonaldTrump, August 11, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/895970429734711298; Dan Merica, Kevin Liptak, and Angela Dewan, “Trump Warns North Korea: US Military ‘Locked and Loaded,’ ” CNN, August 11, 2017.
Russia boosted its air defense: Mythili Sampathkumar, “South Korea in Plea to Avoid North Korea War after Trump’s ‘Locked and Loaded’ Comment,” The Independent, August 14, 2017.
In China, an editorial: “Chinese Paper Says China Should Stay Neutral If North Korea Attacks First,” Reuters, August 10, 2017.
Chinese president Xi: Eric Talmadge and Jonathan Lemire, “Xi Calls for Calm after Trump Says US Is ‘Locked and Loaded,’ ” AP, August 12, 2017.
He stated that the United States: David Nakamura and Anne Gearan, “In U.N. Speech, Trump Threatens to ‘Totally Destroy North Korea’ and Calls Kim Jong Un ‘Rocket Man,’ ” WP, September 19, 2017.
In October, he tweeted: @realDonaldTrump, October 1, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/914497877543735296.
The National Security Strategy: National Security Strategy of the United States of America, December 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/NSS-Final-12-18-2017-0905.pdf.
“running out of time”: Steve Holland, “World ‘Running Out of Time’ on North Korea, Trump to Tell Asia: White House,” Reuters, November 2, 2017.
The potential for war: Alex Pappas, “H. R. McMaster: Potential for War with North Korea Increases ‘Every Day,’ Fox News, December 2, 2017.
“North Korea is ruled”: National Security Strategy of the United States of America, December 2017.
Amid ongoing tweets: @realDonaldTrump, October 7, 2017, https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/916751271960436737.
McMaster commented: Jason Le Miere, “U.S. Prepared to Launch ‘Preventive War’ against North Korea, says H. R. McMaster,” Newsweek, August 5, 2017; Jeff Daniels, “Defense Secretary Mattis Urges US Army ‘to Be Ready’ with North Korea Military Options,” CNBC, October 9, 2017; Eli Watkins, “Tillerson on North Korea: Diplomacy Will Continue ‘Until the First Bomb Drops,’ ” CNN, October 16, 2017.
“[Trump] is ready”: Sophie Tatum, “Graham on North Korea: ‘We’re Headed to a War If Things Don’t Change,’ ” CNN, November 29, 2017.
The murder of Kim Jong Nam: Conor Finnegan and Meghan Keneally, “Timeline of Otto Warmbier’s Saga in North Korea,” ABC News, June 19, 2017.
Tokyo, with a population: Kathleen McInnis, Andrew Feickert, Mark Manyin, Steven Hildreth, Mary Beth Nikitin, Emma Chanlett-Avery, and Catherine Theohary, “The North Korean Nuclear Challenge: Military Options and Issues for Congress,” Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, R44994, November 6, 2017, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/R44994.pdf.
North Korea’s chemical weapons: Yochi Dreazen, “Here’s What War with North Korea Would Look Like,” Vox, February 8, 2018.
After spending a decade researching: Susan Southard, Nagasaki: Life after Nuclear War (New York: Viking, 2015).
Roberta Cohen, a leading: Paul Park, “Unpacking the Unthinkable: Experts Discuss