DPRK to top Trump's 2018 agenda

Experts caution that intransigence could lead down a dangerous path

WASHINGTON - Washington's relations with Pyongyang are expected to be US President Donald Trump's greatest foreign policy challenge in 2018, as tensions continue to simmer between the two nations, US experts said.

Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are at a high point not seen in several years, as Trump wants Pyongyang to halt development of nuclear weapons that could hit the United States, while the Democratic People's Republic of Korea believes that having nuclear weapons is the only way to defend itself from the US.