Analysis: For South Korea, North Korea threat is nothing new

The last 24 hours have seen a rapid ramping-up of the rhetoric coming out of the White House toward North Korea's rogue regime. "They will be met with fire, fury and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before," President Trump warned late Tuesday, just hours after reports surfaced that North Korea had developed a miniaturized nuclear warhead. The possibility of war on the Korean peninsula suddenly seemed much more real. I reached out to Elise Hu, NPR's Asia correspondent, who is based in Seoul for an on-the-ground perspective of the situation. (Make sure to check out her amazing "Elise Tries" video series here.) Our conversation, conducted via email and lightly edited for flow, is below.

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