The newly appointed Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun, will travel to Asia next week to meet with counterparts in Beijing, Seoul, and Tokyo to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. As the Trump administration works to mitigate the nuclear threat posed by Kim Jong Un, North Korea has other dangerous tricks up its sleeve: cyberattacks and chemical weapons.

Although they tend to occupy less space in the public imagination – no mushroom clouds and not nearly as many blockbuster movies – and lack the same capacity for devastating destruction, cyberattacks and chemical and biological weapons are nonetheless substantive threats.