Elliot Tepper digs into the geopolitics of the North Korean nuclear standoff with the West, relating it to the broader concern of weakening barriers in a more nuclear world, US immigration and identity politics, with passing reference to the European Union and Turkey, and concludes with the epic monsoon floods in South Asia and how they relate to the broader theme of climate change given hurricane season in the Western hemisphere, all on 1310 News’ Ottawa Today by Mark Sutcliffe.