Obama Ignores North Korea in Address to Congress

Of the many foreign policy challenges confronting the United States, North Korea's recent nuclear test was not among those mentioned in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address Tuesday. U.S. foreign policy’s top priority, he said, must be dealing with threats from ”failing states” in the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the terror networks that have grown in that part of the world. North Korea analyst Victor Cha with the Washington D.C.-based Center for...

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