While I knew the Obama transition teams had left binders full of briefing materials on North Korea for the new administration, I suspected few people had the clearances—or the time—to go through them all. Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, was probably the one most current on the North Korean threat. But not only had he just been fired, his handpicked aides—derisively called “The Flynnstones”—were gradually being eased out.
