NORTH KOREA: Today is Party Foundation Day in North Korea, an annual public holiday typically marked with fiery speeches and parades featuring ostentatious displays of military hardware, and these days, a ballistic missile firing or two. Pyongyang is 13 hours ahead of Washington, so by the time you read this, Oct. 10 will be in its waning hours, but next week there’s another big event that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un could use to dramatize his defiance of international condemnation of his nuclear weapons and ballistic missile development programs, namely of China’s 19th Party Congress. Stand by.

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