You can blame Donald Trump for a lot of things, but the North Korean dilemma is not one of them.
The Obama team gift-wrapped a highly complex and urgent foreign policy challenge, after doing nothing of consequence for eight years to deter or interrupt the efforts of Kim Jong Un’s regime to build nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that threaten the U.S. mainland.
It should surprise no one that Wendy Sherman, the same State Department diplomat who negotiated the Iran deal for Mr. Obama, negotiated a similar deal with North Korea during the Clinton administration.
This week dropped several consequential developments from the Korean crisis on Mr. Trump’s desk.
Kim Jong Un delivered a New Year’s message that was both bellicose and comforting.