Epstein Secrets

esearch groups, think tanks and universities as well as former government officials, both in the US and abroad. So informed, we highlight activity in North Korea, Russia and the Middle East among our group of risks with high probability but uncertain impact. North Korean Belligerence Continues: North Korea’s

tests. We can only expect further tests in 2017, given the estimates by a Council on Foreign Relations task force chaired by retired Admiral Michael Mullen that North Korea may have between 13 and 21 nuclear weapons as of June 2016.% Even more troubling is a pattern highlighted by David Gordon, adjunct

alian Multination Military Exercise Demonstrates Unity to China • John Kerry in Beijing: Can U.S. and China Set Aside Rivalry for Climate Action? • North Korea Hasn't Answered U.S.'s Calls on Detained Soldier Travis King • North Korea Fires Two Missiles After U.S. Submarine Arrives in South • Ukraine's Sta

ez), CNN (07/24, Alvarez, Rabinowitz), Fox News (07/24, Vacchiano, Gibson, Mears), Reuters (07/24, Beech, Singh), NBC News (07/24, Mitsanas, Kosnar, Mullen), NPR (07/24, Kim), Politico (07/24, Frazier, Gerstein), Axios (07/24, Knutson), Bloomberg (07/24, Mekelburg), Al Jazeera (07/24, Staff Writer), th

al strategic interests were elsewhere, notably in helping to stabilize Egypt, while continuing to try to deal with Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and North Korea. "We can't do it all," said Biden. NATO and the Europeans should do more, he insisted. But NATO is run by consensus, and when its most powerful me

ing a no-fly zone in Libya, Gates went on the record saying what a bad idea he thought that was. "It's an open secret Bob Gates didn't like it, and Mullen didn't like it, because they know what happens when you do this no-fly zone," says Gelb, who writes a column for The Daily Beast. "If you think you

9 Right now, nobody has a successful formula for helping Pakistan — with its 100-plus nuclear weapons - arrest its systemic decline; or for coercing North Korea to slow its growing nuclear weapons and missile capabilities. So the administration gets the benefit of the doubt on those two perplexing problems. O

Barack Obama and his generals know that the age when a US president could simply say that America would do "whatever it takes" is over. Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, has said that the biggest threat to US national security is the budget deficit. In the post- Iraq, post-A