The alarm has been triggered by the growing bellicosity of North Korea. The North Korean regime has never shown such a dangerous face since 1950.

Kim Jong-un is inspired by the invasion of Ukraine and the growing threats to Taiwan. The aggressive path of Russia, and to a different degree of China, could not go unemulated.. Something has been done very wrong these last two decades for the worst dictatorships to now be lining up in a threatening conglomerate, writes Peter Bergen.