U.S. expert backs Trump, Abe to lead pressure campaign against N. Korea

With North Korea extending an olive branch to South Korea in the run-up to February's Winter Olympics, a move seen as an attempt to drive a wedge between Seoul and Washington, an American scholar has backed U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to lead an international campaign to pressure Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons."Mr. Trump and Mr. Abe are in lock-step with one another on the severity of the North Korean nuclear issue and how to respond," said Jeffrey Hornung, a political scientist at the Rand Corporation, a nonpartisan U.S. research organizatio…READ FULL ARTICLE