National security threat

Improving national security

The greatest threat to world peace today is North Korea, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp told members of the Minot Area Chamber of Commerce’s Military Affairs Committee, Thursday.

Heitkamp just returned from an official Senate fact-finding trip to several sites in the Asia-Pacific Region and Alaska. The trip with other congressional members from both the Senate and the House looked at missile defense capabilities in Alaska, Japan, South Korea, Guam and Hawaii.

Heitkamp’s group spent considerable time in South Korea, including visiting the demilitarized zone.

“Anyone who thinks that Kim Jong-un is crazy is wrong,” said Heitkamp, referring to the North Korean leader. She said her dad used to use the phrase “crazy like a fox.” That phrase means someone is seemingly foolish but in fact extremely cunning.