FOREIGN POLICY/POLITICS/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump administration officials will hold a rare briefing for the entire Senate at the White House on North Korea as tensions continue to mount with the oppressive regime.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said the briefing scheduled for Wednesday will be led by Secretary of State Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
He said the meeting was convened by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and that the White House was serving as host.
‘North Korea is a big world problem … people have put blinders on for decades,’ President Trump said Wednesday during an appearance with United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley.
He called the country ‘a real threat to the world.’
The announcement of the unusual briefing came as Haley said the U.S. will strike North Korea if it attacks a military base or tests an intercontinental ballistic missile.”
-Stephen Rex Brown, “Trump administration to hold North Korea briefing for entire U.S. Senate at White House,” The New York Daily News online, April 24, 2017 2:44pm