Bhutan

Staff brief President Bartlet on Bhutan, a distant kingdom where King Nawa has died and 13-year-old Yeshey Pradhan Nawa now rules. The update lands as one routine item in a packed agenda—earthquake in Gujarat, detained ship—its political shift a quiet echo against the Roosevelt Room's mounting urgency over Khundu atrocities. Bhutan registers as a remote transition, dwarfed by immediate crises.