I just saw a report from Reuters and didn’t see anyone else posting it yet, I thought it was worth a short diary. The Trump administration is summoning the entire Senate to some kind of special briefing on North Korea on Wednesday:
All 100 senators have been asked to the White House for the briefing by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the aides said.
While top administration officials routinely travel to Capitol Hill to address members of Congress on foreign policy and national security matters, it is unusual for the entire 100-member Senate to go to such an event at the White House, and for those four top officials to be involved.
Unfortunately I don’t see much else in the way of details being reported. It is also noteworthy that tomorrow, April 25th, is a major holiday in North Korea, “Military Foundation Day”. There has been speculation that they may attempt some sort of nuclear test to coincide with the holiday — if they do, that means there could be news coming out of North Korea as soon as 9-11pm this evening Eastern time.
Hopefully I am just overreacting and reading too much into this.