Following North Korea’s latest weapons test (which sent a missile over Japan), President Trump tweeted: “The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!” (I’m guessing tweeting is not the answer either…) According to Defense Sec James Mattis, “We are never out of diplomatic solutions.”

+ NBC News: “US forces shot down a medium-range ballistic missile off the coast of Hawaii Wednesday as part of a test conducted amid heightened regional tensions.”