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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    How worried should you be about the rhetoric between North Korea and the U.S.?

    It would take 30 minutes for a nuclear missile to travel from North Korea to Los Angeles. How close is that possibility? Many experts are saying the ratcheting up of tensions -- fueled by President Trump -- is needlessly worrying.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Aug 9, 2017 • 1 min read

    It would take 30 minutes for a nuclear missile to travel from North Korea to Los Angeles. How close is that possibility? Many experts are saying the ratcheting up of tensions -- fueled by President Trump -- is needlessly worrying.

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