President Trump and his top national security advisers briefed congressional lawmakers Wednesday on what a senior aide called the “very grave threat” posed by North Korea, but they offered few details about the administration’s strategy to pressure Pyongyang. “But the team has done everything we can try to anticipate reactions [from North Korea] and mitigate the risk,” the official said. Trump has tried to reset the U.S. approach to North Korea, citing the failure of past administrations to rein in the rogue nation’s nuclear-weapons and ballistic-missile programs. But the Trump White House has not defined a policy that looks strikingly different from the approach of past administrations, lawmakers said. “I have supported putting North Korea back as a state sponsor of terror,” Sen. Cory Gardner (D-Colo.) said.

Source: Washington Post April 26, 2017 21:26 UTC