Updated: Rhetoric or real? N. Korea nuclear test may be a bit of both

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea’s latest nuclear test, its most powerful to date, is a game-changer … according to North Korea. As with anything reported by Pyongyang, an authoritarian state run by a third-generation dictator who allows zero dissent or outside investigation, there’s reason to be skeptical. But even if the North’s assertion that […]