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East Asia: President Trump's first foreign policy test

Hosted by Warren Olney Mar. 10, 2017 National

Starting with North Korea's latest test of nuclear missiles, a chain of events is causing instability in Asia. Could it turn into the first real foreign policy crisis of the Trump Administration?

Photo: US Pacific Command has deployed the first elements of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) to South Korea, implementing the US-South Korean alliance’s July 2016 decision to bring the defensive capability to the Korean Peninsula. (Department of Defense)

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Credits

Host:

Warren Olney

Producers:

Luke Vander Ploeg, Jenny Hamel, Yael Even Or