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We talk with New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos whose new article draws on his recent 4 day reporting trip to North Korea s capital Pyongyang that one of the things that s quite striking when you get to town young is that talk of war and nuclear weapons and missiles is everywhere it s on billboards beside the street rashness will tell us what he observed in North Korea and what he learned from officials about their nuclear strategy in North Korea is asking many of the same questions about Donald Trump that we ask about Kim Jong un is he rational or does he have a coherent plan and does he recognize the full risks of what he s dealing with us watch North Korean officials try to interpret one of Trump s tweets about North Korea as well as covers politics and foreign affairs for The New Yorker and covered China for 8 years. And here is the writers are going to occur Wednesday the 13th of September 2017 it was honest 814 Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the words to the Star-Spangl