Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) speaks as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) looks on during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on March 13, 2017 in Washington, DC.  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) held a news conference to react to the CBO report on the proposed American Health Care Act.
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Pressure will work only if there is also some reason for North Korea to make concessions. Pyongyang has indicated in the past that it seeks a formal end to the Korean War (Washington signed only an armistice in 1953), a recognition of the regime and the lifting of sanctions. Obviously none of this should be offered right now, but there is no harm in talking to Pyongyang and searching for ways to trade some of these concessions for the complete eradication of the nuclear program.

Donald Trump campaigned as someone who wanted to get America out of the Middle East. But he also cast himself as a tough guy, and his initial instincts in office were to show force — added troops, more aggressive rules of engagement, bigger bombs — in America’s war zones. “These killers need to know they have nowhere to hide,” he said when announcing a troop surge in Afghanistan.

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