The escalation of tensions between North Korea and the United States comes even though President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un have each tried to resist hawkish advisers. Kim and Trump have focused on building a personal relationship as they look to forge a historic disarmament accord. “What’s really striking is how in both systems the bureaucracies aren’t always moving in the same direction as the leaders are signaling,” Scott Snyder, a Korea expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, said. [WaPost]
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