As if COVID-19 were not enough to worry about, the global climate crisis is driving a “staggering rise” in natural disasters, the U.N. warned last week in a new report. Unless humanity takes dramatic action to reduce carbon emissions, the planet risks becoming “an uninhabitable hell for millions of people.”

North Korea’s massive military parade last weekend was an opportunity for the regime to project strength as it copes with crises on multiple fronts. Numerous military advances were on display, including a road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile that experts believe is the largest of its kind in the world.