AND IN THE REAL WORLD – AT 9:57 A.M. ET:  In other words, outside CNN's world of investigatingTrump every day.  The situation with North Korea is critical.  The president's superb national security adviser, Lieut. Gen. Herb McMaster, is on the case.  From Fox:

The Trump administration is considering a wider range of strategies on how to deal with North Korea, including the military option, Trump's national security adviser said Wednesday.

“The threat is much more immediate now and so it’s clear that we can’t repeat the same approach – failed approach of the past,” H.R. McMaster, the adviser, said during a security conference with Homeland Security Chief John Kelly.

He said it would be insanity to continue to do the same thing the U.S. has done for years and expect a different result.

McMaster’s comments come a day before Trump is scheduled to meet with South Korean President Moon Jae-in. South Korea’s new leader vowed to stand firmly with Trump against North Korea, downplaying his past advocacy for a softer approach toward the isolated regime.

"Together we will achieve the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program, peace on the Korean Peninsula and eventually peace in Northeast Asia," Moon said.

COMMENT:  There had been serious concern in Washington that South Korea's new leader would take an unacceptably soft line toward the North.  That has not happened, and I would think that President Trump's firmness had a great deal to do with that policy decision.  Compare please with our last president.

North Korea, with its nuclear and missile programs, is our most pressing foreign problem.   As the song says, "Somethin's got to give."

June 29,  2017