While we were preparing for our trip, President Trump was telling the United Nations that the United States may be forced to “totally destroy North Korea.” The country responded by organizing a series of huge anti-American parades.
Welcome to Pyongyang, kind of.
In the fall of 2017, I went to North Korea on a quest to understand whether war was inevitable, whether there is a real chance millions of people might die.
Along with Op-Ed columnist Nicholas Kristof and editorial writer Carol Giacomo, and video journalist Adam Ellick, we arrived in the world’s most isolated country as tensions between it and the United States were at their highest in a generation. In a sign of continuing escalation, just today, North Korea launched another ballistic missile.