The Donald Trump administration is scheduled to hold rare briefings for the full US Congress on the president’s policy toward North Korea amid rising tensions between the two countries.
All 100 members of the Senate along with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats and General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will attend the session on Wednesday.
The administration officials, who typically go to the Capitol building to brief lawmakers on national security issues, will be meeting the entire Senate at the White House before the same four officials go to Capitol Hill to brief the entire House at 5 pm EDT.
“I hope and expect that it is worth the time of the trip and that we’ll hear things we don’t know, and that we’ll come out of it better informed. We’ll see,” said Senator Chris Coons, a Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Lawmakers,…