Claudia Rosett, Fred Fleitz, Dr. Keith Payne, Bill Gertz

CLAUDIA ROSETT, foreign affairs columnist/blogger at Forbes.com and PJ Media:

• Hermit Kingdom developing nuclear missiles that can reach the US
• Obama Administration and the UN only lobbing words at the Kim Regime
• South Korea deploying missile defenses and shutting down an industrial park at its Northern border
• Build up of an axis of nations and groups hostile to the US

FRED FLEITZ, CSP VP for Policy and Programs, former CIA analyst:

• Intelligence community presenting Congress with its annual Worldwide Threat Assessment
• James Clapper doesn’t know whether Iran will pursue nuclear weapons or not
• John Kerry’s diplomacy at it again in Syria’s “suspension of hostilities”
• Has the Obama Administration deliberately destroyed data on Islamic terrorism inside the US?

Dr. KEITH PAYNE, President and co-founder of the National Institute for Public Policy:

• New Russian national security strategy
• The Kremlin’s nuclear weapon “first use” policy
• Moscow’s long history of violating arms control agreements
• Putin’s goals of creating the most advanced weaponry man has ever seen

(PART TWO):

• NATO’s Flexible Response Doctrine compared to Russia’s “escalate to deescalate” doctrine
• Status of the current US deterrent posture
• Urgent need to reinvest in the US defense infrastructure

BILL GERTZ, senior editor at the Washington Free Beacon:

• Congressional threat briefing on Chinese continued cyber espionage
• Mike Rogers’ Senate testimony on the security of US critical infrastructure
• Threat of North Korea detonating an EMP device in the atmosphere, rendering the US electric grid useless
• Intelligence on China upgrading its long range ballistic missiles from one to three warheads
• US downgrading its Multiple Independently Targetable Missile capacity