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In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:     Israeli forces recently thwarted a massive Iranian smuggling operation aimed at getting advanced weaponry to Palestinians inside Israel, as Israel warns that the Islamic regime is trying to spark terrorism inside the West Bank. Russia has started supplying oil directly to North Korea in flagrant violation of U.N. sanctions, as the two powers further cement their military ties. The Putin regime has doubled down on their baseless claims that western powers and Ukrainian forces were involved in the deadly ISIS terror attack in Moscow last Friday. In our 'Back of the Brief' segment, China is lashing out at the U.S. and western allies after being hit with sanctions over alleged government-backed cyberattacks. To listen to the show ad-free, become a premium member of The President’s Daily Brief by visiting PDBPremium.com. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief.     Email: PDB@TheFirstTV.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What do Lee Anderson’s inflammatory comments mean for the Tory party? Is it possible for Parliament to have a united front on Israel-Gaza? Will North Korea ever collapse? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more on today's episode of The Rest Is Politics. TRIP Plus: Become a member of The Rest Is Politics Plus to support the podcast, receive our exclusive newsletter, enjoy ad-free listening to both TRIP and Leading, benefit from discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, join our Discord chatroom, and receive early access to live show tickets and Question Time episodes. Just head to therestispolitics.com to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/therestispolitics. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @RestIsPolitics Email: restispolitics@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode of The President's Daily Brief:     Negotiations for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas continue to drag on as mediators struggle to bridge the divide between the two sides on a number of critical issues. Kim Jong Un is once again engaging in provocations on the Korean peninsula, firing multiple cruise missiles into the sea on Wednesday. The Ukrainian military has scored another major naval victory against Russian forces off the coast of Crimea, sinking a large Russian landing ship on Wednesday in an operation involving naval drones. In our 'Back of the Brief' segment, we’ll discuss rising concerns over illegal border crossings by Chinese nationals, which have increased by a staggering 500 percent in the San Diego sector since last year. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The President's Daily Brief.     Email: PDB@TheFirstTV.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin:     A ceasefire framework has emerged for Israel and Hamas that could see the release of hostages still in captivity in Gaza, however, the proposal’s future remains in doubt as Hamas continues to express reservations. We’ll discuss the latest provocations by North Korea after the DPRK fired multiple cruise missiles toward waters off its west coast, the third salvo of cruise missiles fired by the regime in just the past week. Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin.     Email: PDB@TheFirstTV.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of "The President's Daily Brief," Mike Baker looks at critical developments both at home and abroad:   Tensions are escalating within the United Auto Workers, one of America's most significant labor unions, as they stand on the brink of a major strike. We delve into the implications this could have on the domestic economy and the auto industry.   We revisit the international stage with an update on North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, who is reportedly gearing up for a trip to Russia. What might this mean for global geopolitics, and what is the significance in light of Ukraine's ongoing counter-offensive?   In the Back of the Brief, we share a fresh economic forecast that spells trouble for China but may be a silver lining for the United States.   Please remember to subscribe if you enjoyed this episode of the President's Daily Brief. Email: PDB@TheFirstTV.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trevor wonders what really motivated President Trump to make a nuclear deal with North Korea. 

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The most important story in the world right now is how real the chance of war with North Korea is — and how cataclysmic such a war would be. Part of the reason the risk of war is so real is that our understanding of North Korea is so sparse. "The Hermit Kingdom" is a world unto itself; a land of deprivation, of lunacy, of tyranny, of delusion. We have no diplomatic relations, no trade, no cross-cultural exchanges. We don't understand Kim Jong Un, we don't understand his people, and they don't understand us. And so, ignorant, we lurch towards the possibility of nuclear war built atop mutual miscomprehension.  The best view we have into life in North Korea is Barbara Demick's Nothing to Envy: The Ordinary Lives of North Koreans. Demick was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Seoul and Beijing, and she found herself obsessed with this country she couldn't cover and couldn't understand. So she began talking to the people who had left it, the refugees who escaped across the DMZ. She began asking them to reconstruct their lives, to tell her what it was like, to make everyday life in North Korea intelligible. And they did. They told her what it was like to grow up, and to fall in love, and to go to school, and to have dinner, and to flee. They told her what it was like to build new lives, to remember past friends, to know their family was in a place they could never visit again, to hear the rest of the world fear and pity the place they had once called home.  This conversation is about North Korea, but it's also about North Koreans — about what it's like to live in the most closed society on earth, about what they know and don't know of the outside world, about how their existence can be both ordinary and extraordinary, about what would happen to them if there was a war. And this is a conversation about what we need to know about North Korea, about how the country's past informs its present, about what Demick would tell Trump if he would just listen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices