The US has also defended the deployment of an advanced missile defence system in South Korea, with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson saying he wants "peaceful denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula". But his country remains "prepared to defend ourselves and our allies", he adds.
He's got people reaching for their dictionaries again. In his first significant intervention of the general election campaign, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has called Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn a "mutton-headed old mugwump". Writing in the Sun, he accuses him of being reluctant to use lethal force, opposing nuclear weapons and campaigning against Nato. Labour's responded by calling Mr Johnson "delusional". A mugwump is someone who remains aloof or independent, especially politically (according to the Oxford English Dictionary).
When did humans first reach the Americas? About 25,000 years ago, right? Well, research suggests it might have happened 100,000 years or so earlier than that, but the idea's not exactly proving uncontroversial.
Nearly 80% of foreign exchange trading and 30% of all bank lending in the European Union flows through the UK. How much that will change after Britain leaves the EU is a matter of increasingly tense debate.
It's a mixed selection of front-page stories today. The Times reports that a squeeze on NHS spending is leading pharmaceutical companies to leave the UK. The Guardian says large numbers of foreign fighters are abandoning so-called Islamic State, while several papers focus on an investigation launched by HM Revenue and Customs into alleged income tax and National Insurance fraud at Newcastle United and West Ham. And the Mail highlights a report by MPs saying that patients are losing out on appointments because of an "early closing culture" among GPs.
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