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Today’s news continues, or perhaps renews, the weird sense of self-imposed crisis surrounding U.S. North Korea policy:

Entire U.S. Senate to go to White House for North Korea briefing: https://t.co/wbRa4H0IOA pic.twitter.com/l3E4BSEqBR — Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) April 24, 2017

Why not just have a hearing? But anyhow. Having declared an end to the era of “strategic patience,” it seems that the U.S. government is intent on keeping itself busy with the subject.

I have some reflections on that process to date. A curated tweetstorm follows.