INTERVIEW – MICHAEL AUSLIN – Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia, Hoover Institution and author of “The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World’s Most Dynamic Region”

• Biography: Michael Auslin is the Williams-Griffis Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He specializes in global risk analysis, U.S. security and foreign policy strategy, and security and political relations in Asia.
• US intelligence has concluded North Korea is making missile-ready nuclear warheads, Washington Post reports. A confidential assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency says that North Korea has already developed a miniaturized nuclear weapon that can fit on top of an ICBM. (The Washington Post) North Korea has successfully produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead that can fit inside its missiles, crossing a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power, U.S. intelligence officials have concluded in a confidential assessment.
• Trump says North Korea threat ‘will be met with fire, fury and, frankly, power the likes of which this world has never seen before’