By Megan Eckstein, USNI News: “Complex situations in the Asia-Pacific region have forced the United States to both rely on China as a partner in deescalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula and admonish as an aggressor, with the U.S. vowing to push back with upcoming Freedom of Navigation operations in the South China Sea and pushing other countries to do the same, U.S. Pacific Command commander Adm. Harry Harris told lawmakers yesterday.”
NORTH KOREA: Nuclear Tests Will "Never Stop"
By Will Ripley, Tim Schwarz and Ben Westcott, CNN: “A North Korean government official in a rare interview promised his country's nuclear tests would "never stop" as long as the US continued what they viewed as "acts of aggression."”