North Korea, Catalonia, Hurricane Nate: Your Monday Briefing
The leader, Kim Jong-un, vowed over the weekend to build up his nuclear arsenal as a "powerful deterrent" to the U.S. At a major meeting, above, Mr. Kim also promoted his sister,
Kim Yo-jong, 30, to the nation’s top decision making body, along with Foreign Minister Ri Yong-ho, who warned last month of a possible hydrogen bomb test over the Pacific.
• Hurricane Nate weakened to a tropical storm as it moved inland over Mississippi and Alabama,
but storm-surge flooding continued in the southeastern U.S. [The New York Times] • ISIS fighters have been surrendering en masse after losing their last major urban stronghold in Iraq.
[The New York Times] • China denied responsibility for reported cyberattacks in the U.S. appearing
to target Guo Wengui, the exiled tycoon who accused Communist Party officials of corruption.
The moves came after days of vague, threatening comments from President Trump:
that a dinner with military leaders was "the calm before the storm," and that 25 years of talks and deals with North Korea had made "fools of U.S. negotiators." "Sorry, but only one thing will work!" he tweeted.
Here’s what you need to know: • North Korea celebrates a major holiday tomorrow, raising concerns of another possible major nuclear or missile test.
_____ • U.S. investigators, still unable to identify the gunman’s motive for massacring 58 people on Oct. 1, are putting up billboards
around Las Vegas begging, "If you know something, say something." Our reporters were able to reconstruct the contours of his life.