At the unveiling of a towering bronze sculpture of North Korean and Russian soldiers in combat, Kim Jong Un praised troops who chose death over capture while fighting in Ukraine. It was a striking and unusually explicit acknowledgment of Pyongyang’s long-suspected battlefield doctrine.

Talks between Iran and the United States on ending the war seem stalled, despite U_S_ President Donald Trump earlier claiming Iran had informed his administration that it was in a “State of Collapse.”