International security

Q&A: Trump, N. Korea — a potential train wreck in motion

Threats and bluster are part of a familiar and long-running game of brinkmanship between the U.S. and North Korea, but this time the situation has been made more dangerous by two volatile new players: Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump.

...“The most unpredictable part of this story is Trump, not North Korea. North Korea is doing what it always does,” said Sue Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst who specializes in North Korea. “There is a lot of brinkmanship going on, but people can miscalculate,” she warned. “And things could go very, very wrong.”