• North Korea celebrates the 85th anniversary of the founding of its army today, amid signs that its sixth nuclear test could be imminent.

In separate phone calls with President Trump, President Xi Jinping of China appealed for restraint and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan endorsed the U.S. position that all options were “on the table.”

Our national security correspondent reports that expert studies and classified intelligence findings have concluded that North Korea can now produce a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks.