As is usually the case with North Korea, there will be some distance between the threatening rhetoric and the truth. Yet the former is always kind of freaky.
The New York Times reports:
If Mr. Kim follows through with those threats, that would mean that North Korea was readying its fifth nuclear test and was preparing to conduct more missile launchings in defiance of the sanctions resolution the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted this month against the country.
Mr. Kim declared that “a nuclear warhead explosion test and a test-fire of several kinds of ballistic rockets able to carry nuclear warheads will be conducted in a short time to further enhance the reliance of nuclear attack capability,” the North’s official Korean Central News Agency reported on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, a UN human rights investigator urged the prosecution of the North Korean leader, saying the nation was “devoting huge resources to developing nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction while many of its citizens went hungry and others worked in “slave-like conditions”.
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WORLD
In the US presidential primaries, there are key contests on Tuesday, including Florida and Ohio, possibly the home-state “last stands” for Marco Rubio and John Kasich respectively.
And Trump may or may not have picked up the endorsement of a still somewhat beloved Ohioan…
But since Rose signs pretty much anything, it’s hard to tell for sure…
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SPORTS
There are conflicting reports tonight over the future of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, with a press conference apparently set for Tuesday morning.
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CULTURE
Finally, the cast of Hamilton visited the White House today.
The Overnight Note 