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The likelihood of a nuclear war "goes up a little bit every year," former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday, warning that the amount of conflicts now raging across the globe coupled with the sheer number of nations equipped with the world's deadliest weapons constitutes a uniquely dangerous dynamic.
America's national interests are increasingly challenged on the world stage by an "axis of authoritarians," according to a longtime U.S. government security adviser, who warns of an "expanding club of rogue states" with China, Russia, Iran and North Korea at its core.
Ten years after a special United Nations commission found that the North Korean regime's most egregious human rights violations amounted to "crimes against humanity," the U.N. Security Council has yet to make a referral of the case to the International Criminal Court.
Pyongyang's motivation to strike a denuclearization deal with the U.S. seems to have dropped dramatically in recent years, America's former top intelligence officer for North Korea said Tuesday, warning that the country's deepening relationships with Russia and China have dimmed the prospects for any diplomatic breakthrough in the near term.
Taiwanese Vice President William Lai struck a defiant tone toward China during a visit to the United States on Monday, vowing that the U.S.-backed island democracy won't back down in the face of threats from Beijing.