- "The U.S. has been talking to North Korea, and paying them extortion money, for 25 years. Talking is not the answer!," President Trump tweeted on Wednesday, while Defense Secretary James Mattis said the U.S. is "never out of diplomatic solutions."
- Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also expressed hopes last week that the U.S. would be open to "some dialogue" with the Kim Jong-un regime "sometime in the near future."
- ETFs: EWY, KF, KEF, KORU, DBKO, FKO, DXKW, QKOR, HEWY, KOR