WHAT NEXT WITH N. KOREA? As U.S. Special Representative Stephen Biegun returns to Washington empty-handed after stops in Seoul, Tokyo and Beijing, there is growing bipartisan concern that the U.S. is headed for another confrontation with North Korea over its refusal to take substantial steps to dismantling its nuclear arsenals, as Kim Jong Un promised last year.

That concern was on display yesterday at a Capitol Hill news conference called to tout new tougher sanctions against North Korea banking contained in the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act, just passed by the Senate, and which could be signed by President Trump as soon as today.