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    Will President Trump's first foreign policy test be in Asia?

    Barack Obama warned Donald Trump about trouble from North Korea, and his prediction is coming true. With North Korea's missile tests and America's missile defenses, China says they're like trains accelerating toward one another.

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    By Warren Olney • Mar 10, 2017 • 1 min read

    Barack Obama warned Donald Trump about trouble from North Korea, and his prediction is coming true. With North Korea's missile tests and America's missile defenses, China says they're like trains accelerating toward one another. China itself feels threatened, and South Korea, where the defenses are being installed, has just kicked its president out of office. Meantime, North Korea's Kim Jung Un appears to have orchestrated the public assassination of his half-brother. Is all this building up to a regional crisis?

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    East Asia: President Trump's first foreign policy test
    1. 1:22Trump pre-emptively attacks the Congressional Budget Office
    2. 7:57Will President Trump's first foreign policy test be in Asia?You’re reading this
    3. 42:01Who are the hundreds of officials Trump has hired so far?
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      Warren Olney

      former KCRW broadcaster

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      Luke Vander Ploeg

      Producer, 'To the Point'

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      Jenny Hamel

      KCRW

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      Yael Even Or

      Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Shihoko Goto

      Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

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      James Acton

      Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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      Sung Won Sohn

      Professor of Finance and Economics, Loyola Marymount University

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    The full episode

    2 of 3
    East Asia: President Trump's first foreign policy test
    1. 1:22Trump pre-emptively attacks the Congressional Budget Office
    2. 7:57Will President Trump's first foreign policy test be in Asia?You’re reading this
    3. 42:01Who are the hundreds of officials Trump has hired so far?
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