US manoeuvres - Hanoi hopes

Not for the first time, the US government speaks with forked tongue. Mr Trump says North Korea no longer poses a nuclear threat. His secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, disagrees; he says it does.

Is this a secretary of state who has been fooled by fake news, or a president who is so sure of his own infallibility that no inconvenient facts are allowed to dislodge the fairy tales floating around in his head when he, or whoever else it is who can’t spell, starts the day with a presidential tweet?