Subject: ?Axios AM: Mike's Top 5 — Happy Easter! — Did U.S. cyber-terminate North Korean missile? — 'A win for Trump' — Pence: a 'provocation' — Favoring millennials
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2017 09:10:13 -0400 (EDT)

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Did U.S. cyber-terminate North Korean missile? — 'A win for Trum=' — Pence: a 'provocation' — Favoring millennials

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By Mike Allen = ·Apr 16, 2017

Happy Easter to you and yours. In keeping wi=h Axios' commitment to saving you time, we're going to catch you up ev=n faster today. Hopefully you'll get off of your device quicker!

1 big thing ... A win for Trump: North Korean bellyflop

Soldiers march across Kim Il Sung Square during yesterday's military par=de in Pyongyang, North Korea / AP's Wong Maye-E

Some speculation this morning that the U.S. cyb=r-terminated last night's (ET) North Korean missile test, which w=s clearly aimed at taunting Trump, but belly-flopped.

Get sm=rt fast: Steve LeVine — longtime foreign correspondent fo= the top papers, who joined Axios last week as Future Editor — ema=ls me in Raleigh, where I'm celebrating Easter with my brother, Scott; She=i; and their two sons (one graduating from Chapel Hill this year!):
The spectacular =nticlimax to the frightening brinksmanship between Kim and Trump =akes the former look horribly incompetent and Trump yet again a lot more s=illful internationally than he's generally given credit for.

Some people will be convinced that the message of the abortive launch demonstrates that North Korea ha= a much longer road to an ICBM that can strike the continental U.S. <=p>
Many more will suspect that<=strong> — as the Trump administration threatened leading up to the=abortive launch — it was not going to permit Kim to detonate a six=h nuclear test, and that it fulfilled its words. ...

All in all, a win for Trump, and <=m>— at least for the moment — a pause in the=most fraught foreign policy crisis of his early presidency.

Taking a longer view ... Tru=p now arguably has three straight big wins, all on the in=ernational stage: In quick succession, he has stood up to Assad, to Putin,=and now — it will appear to many — Kim.

Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former U.K. foreign secretary, speaking to=the BBC today and quoted in The=Telegraph of London: "It could have failed because the system is not c=mpetent enough to make it work, but there is a very strong belief that the=US — through cyber methods — has been successful on severa= occasions in interrupting these sorts of tests and making them fail."
=p>Key point, from N.Y. =imes' story (which runs on p. A9 in the final!):

North Korean leader Kim Jo=g-un "is acutely aware that the threat that he could soon possess=— a missile that could strike the continental United States �=94 is Washington's biggest concern, and both the number and the variety of=missiles he showed on Saturday seemed to be sending the message th=t a pre-emptive strike against his facilities would be fruitless."
WashPost leads th= paper with North Korea: "The president seem=d to be hoping for a calm weekend. He was joined on his trip by just three=junior staffers and K.T. McFarland, a deputy national security adviser who=was recently pushed out and made ambassador to Singapore as a consolation.=

2. Bite of the day

N.Y. Times' Jonathan Martin to John King on CNN's "Insi=e Politics""

Trump is all f=r the sort of "big stick" part of it. But he's a=so walking loudly here. So he's not really a Teddy Roosev=lt type. He's doing his own thing here with the presidency.

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3. Pence lands on Korean Peninsula

Vice President Pence and his wife, Karen, arrive today with their daught=rs, Audrey and Charlotte, at Osan Air Base in Pyeongtaek, South Korea / Ph=to by Yonhap's Kim Do-hoon via AP

"Pence: North Korea='provocation' shows the risk to military," by AP's Ken Thomas=in Seoul: "Pence landed in South Korea at the start of a 10-day trip to As=a ... While Pence was aboard Air Force Two flying over the Bering =ea, a North Korean missile exploded during launch."

During a fellowship meal with mili=ary personnel after an Easter service, Pence said: "This morning's provoca=ion from the North is just the latest reminder of the risks each one of yo= face every day in the defense of the freedom of the people of South Korea=and the defense of America in this part of the world."

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4. Trending in business: Favoring millennials

"Older Workers Challenge In one class action agai=st PricewaterhouseCoopers, two men say they were rejected because they lac=ed the youthful profile possessed by many PwC recruits," by Wall Street Jo=rnal's Jacob Gorshman:

"[F]avo=itism toward millennials, the suit alleges, violates the federal =ge Discrimination in Employment Act, or ADEA."

The tri=ger: "[T]he percentage of new hires who are recent college gradua=es is up by more than 40% from a decade ago."

A sad stat:<=strong> "Unemployed workers between 45 and 54 have been unemployed for an =verage of 10 weeks longer than jobless Americans between 25 and 34."
<=i>The legal backdrop: "[T]he idea that company recruitmen= efforts aimed at students and recent graduates can be unlawful is a contr=versial premise that no federal appeals court has ever endorsed."

=strong>Why it matters: "Courts have looked at the question more c=osely in the aftermath of a recession that saw many seasoned workers lose =heir jobs and toil to find new ones. Advocates for older Americans say age=discrimination in hiring is driven by a common misperception that younger =orkers are more productive, creative, trainable and cheaper."

5. 1 fun thing: "Elimination Night" on "SNL"

"Elimination Night" on "SNL": Trump says either Kushner or Bannon must g=, then holds up the photo of the one who'll remain.

"A Bannon-Kushner Showdown <=strong>and Spicer as the Easter Bunny on 'Saturday Night Live,'" by N.Y. T=mes' Dave Itzkoff:

Alec Ba=dwin returned to play President Trump in the show's cold open, wo=king from the Oval Office with Vice President Mike Pence (played by the ca=t member Beck Bennett [who also plays Tapper]). ... Trump asked Mr. Pence =o read from his list of accomplishments from his first 100 days ... Pence =pened a folder, read a single item — "nominated Neil Gorsuch" �=80� and closed the folder. ...

=em>Baldwin lamented, "I'm so sad my presidency is finally=coming to an end." Mr. Bennett, as Mr. Pence, corrected him, "No, sir, you=still have over 1,300 days left." Mr. Baldwin said: "I don't know. Have yo= seen my tweets about North Korea? This could all be over by Monday." ... =/em>

Baldwin then summoned =/strong>Mr. Bannon ... (depicted, as is "S.N.L." tradition, as the Grim Re=per), and Mr. Kushner ... (played by Mr. Fallon, who was attired as the re=l Mr. Kushner was on a recent visit to Iraq) to inform them that only one =f them would be allowed to continue working with him. Against dramatic mus=c and lighting that evoked ... "The Apprentice," Mr. Baldwin evaluated the=two candidates.

YouTubes: Cold Open in Oval Office ... Easter Message from Sean Spicer

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