North Korea expert: What we're seeing is 'the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion'

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April 17, 2017 5:31 PM

"The big takeaway is that they’re taking this seriously."

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Tensions between the US and North Korea have reached historic levels,

Except, Litwak said, it's not in slow motion anymore, given the US's new approach to North Korea.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that "our policy of strategic patience has ended," signaling a tougher stance toward South Korea's volatile neighbor. On Monday, Vice President Mike Pence, speaking from the demilitarized zone between North Korea and South Korea, echoed Tillerson's comments nearly verbatim.

Pence added that the US would stand by its "iron-clad alliance" with South Korea, saying that ""

President Donald Trump told CNN on Monday that North Korea has "got to behave." The White House's forceful response to North Korea camem after a New York Times report that found the US had been waging a covert cyber warfare operation against Pyongyang for at least 3 years. The report

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