Wed Apr 10, 2013 AT 6:20 AM EDT
The warnings from North Korea escalated Tuesday as the Communist nation warned foreigners in South Korea they should make plans to evacuate, as reported by the Washington Post. Don’t fret though, for, according to the top commander of U.S forces in the Senate, the Star Wars anti-missile system on ships and on land can knock Kim Jung Un’s nukes out of the sky, according to the Los Angeles Times. Finally, in an exclusive, Foreign Policy reveals that the U.S. and North Korea held secret back-channel talks in March through something called “the New York Channel.”