Intelligence chiefs at odds with Trump on DPRK, IS and Iran

WASHINGTON - US intelligence chiefs contradicted some of President Donald Trump's most fundamental foreign policy claims on Tuesday, underscoring a persistent division between his view of the world and theirs.

In a hearing on global threats at the Senate Intelligence Committee, the country's top spies took issue with Trump's assertion that the Islamic State group has been defeated, and that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea can be convinced to forego its nuclear weapons.

They also challenged Trump's claim that Teheran is actively seeking nuclear weapons, the justification Trump gave for withdrawing last year from a multilateral treaty on Iran.