A new perspective on Trump's charm offensive with North Korea

(CNN)For a moment during the early days of the Trump administration, then-Defense Secretary James Mattis thought the US might be on the threshold of war that could go nuclear. It's a revelation that puts President Donald Trump's 2018 charm offensive with North Korea in a whole new perspective. Bob Woodward's expose of Trump's lies to Americans about the coronavirus grabbed the headlines earlier this month. But his new book's glimpse at the period back when Pyongyang was shooting off missiles is actually more remarkable. Woodward writes that Mattis slept in his gym clothes so he could spring into action at a second's notice to order an attempt to down a missile headed towards the US, Japan or...