Trump’s year of living dangerously: How the US came scarily close to war with North Korea in 2017

In the first year of the Trump presidency, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis would sleep in his gym clothes to save critical minutes in the event that he was awakened to news of an incoming missile from North Korea.

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