Wait a minute — don’t remember Mr. Obama’s near-war with North Korea? But President Trump has been telling audiences lately that his predecessor was on the precipice of an all-out confrontation with the nuclear-armed maverick state. The way Mr. Trump tells the story, the jets were practically scrambling in the hangars. “I believe he would have gone to war with North Korea,” Mr. Trump said in the White House Rose Garden on Friday. In fact, he told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea.”

Source: New York Times February 16, 2019 16:07 UTC