A Week Around the World With <i>The Atlantic</i>
Changing dynamics with North Korea and tensions in East Asia
What We’re Writing
North and South Korean officials that they would march under the same flag at the upcoming Winter Olympics and, for the first time, field a joint women’s ice-hockey team. Some analysts viewed this as a major diplomatic breakthrough. H.R. McMaster, the U.S. National Security Adviser, has emerged as the Trump administration’s most hawkish critic of North Korea, that the country seeks a nuclear program, not for deterrence, but for aggression.
