When he handed over the presidency seven years ago, Mr Barack Obama warned his incoming successor Donald Trump that the most urgent problem he would face was North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile programmes.
He saw those programmes as a completely unacceptable threat to America’s security and world peace, but he had failed to stop them. Now it was Trump’s turn.
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