FOCUS ON NORTH KOREA: It’s August and the president and Congress have left Washington, but the vexing problem of North Korea is not going anywhere. President Trump, on a “working vacation” at his New Jersey golf resort, consulted by phone last night with South Korean President Moon Jae-in, tweeting afterward: “Just completed call with President Moon of South Korea. Very happy and impressed with 15-0 United Nations vote on North Korea sanctions.”

The U.N. resolution, including a ban on coal and other exports, was passed unanimously by the Security Council Saturday. It could cut North Korea’s exports by a third, costing Pyongyang about $1 billion in revenue, something U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley said would give the regime leaders “a taste of the deprivation they have chosen to inflict on the North Korean people.”