Chances Of War With N Korea 'Increases Every Day', Europe's Migrant Crisis: Millions Still To Come

HR McMaster claims nuclear war possibility increases every day

President Trump's national security adviser said Saturday that the war with North Korea increases in possibility every day while the problem with the hermit kingdom remains unsolved.

Speaking with Fox News' Bret Baier at the Reagan National Security Forum in California, HR McMaster shared his thoughts on the increasing possibility of nuclear war.  

'I think it's increasing every day,' McMaster said to Baier. 'It means we're in a race. We're in a race to be able to solve this problem.

'There are ways to address this problem short of armed conflict, but it is a race because he's getting closer and closer and there's not much time left.'

North Korea fired a intercontinental ballistic missile last week, flying 1,000 miles higher than its first ICBM launch in July.

And Kim Jong Un's nuclear ambitions are the gravest national security threat that America faces, according to McMaster.  

'The greatest immediate threat to the United States and to the world is the threat posed by the rogue regime in North Korea and his continued efforts to develop a long range nuclear capability,' he added.

'So it's immensely important that we work together with all of our allies, partners, everyone internationally, to convince Kim Jong Un that the continued pursuit of these capabilities is a dead end for him and his regime.'

The ballistic missile fired last week did not survive re-entry into the atmosphere - it broke up.

But McMaster still thinks this ambition on the dictator's missile program shows clear improvement. 

'What is clear is every time – every time - he conducts a missile launch, a nuclear test, he gets better,' McMaster said. 

'And whether it's a success or failure isn't as important as understanding that over the years he's been learning from failures, improving, thereby increasing his threat to all of us.'

Also at the forum, McMaster denied that recent guilty plea from Michael Flynn had rattled the administration.

McMaster said: 'I've seen no evidence of the investigation in any way impeding the important work we're doing.' 

Europe's Migrant Crisis: Millions Still to Come

• More than six million migrants are waiting in countries around the Mediterranean to cross into Europe, according to a classified German government report leaked to Bild.
  
  
• "Young people all have cellphones and they can see what's happening in other parts of the world, and that acts as a magnet." — Michael Møller, Director of the United Nations office in Geneva.
  
  
• "The biggest migration movements are still ahead: Africa's population will double in the next decades... Nigeria [will grow] to 400 million. In our digital age with the internet and mobile phones, everyone knows about our prosperity and lifestyle.... Eight to ten million migrants are still on the way." — Gerd Müller, Germany's Development Minister.
  
  

The African Union-European Union (AU-EU) summit, held in in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, on November 29-30, 2017, has ended in abject failure after the 55 African and 28 European leaders attending the event were unable to agree on even basic measures to prevent potentially tens of millions of African migrants from flooding Europe.

Despite high expectations and grand statements, the only concrete decision to come out of Abidjan was the promise to evacuate 3,800 African migrants stranded in Libya.

More than six million migrants are waiting in countries around the Mediterranean to cross into Europe, according to a classified German government report leaked to Bild. The report said that one million people are waiting in Libya; another one million are waiting in Egypt, 720,000 in Jordan, 430,000 in Algeria, 160,000 in Tunisia, and 50,000 in Morocco. More than three million others who are waiting in Turkey are currently prevented from crossing into Europe by the EU's migrant deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The former head of the British embassy in Benghazi, Joe Walker-Cousins, warned that as many as a million migrants from countries across Africa are already on the way to Libya and Europe. The EU's efforts to train a Libyan coast guard was "too little and too late," he said. "My informants in the area tell me there are potentially one million migrants, if not more, already coming up through the pipeline from central Africa and the Horn of Africa."