Rogue Diplomacy

Back then, the US saw Colombia as hosting two increasingly interwoven threats, which, without a successful military response, heralded the grim prospect of Colombia becoming a failed state.

The danger that it could produce and export fissile material or weapons to other rogue States or terrorists must not and could not be ignored.

They put in the advertisement, one rogue has the temporary office, the other rogue incites the man to apply for it, and together they manage to secure his absence every morning in the week.

If North Korea is, indeed, continuing to develop not only its nuclear arsenal, but also various types of ballistic missiles, in defiance of international commitments, it is truly a rogue state.

On 17 November 2004, a single ship with a foreign registration arrived from a neighbouring Gulf State at the port of Marka in southern Mogadishu carrying a shipment of arms.

On the contrary, both the US and the Uribe government regard what has happened in Colombia as model to be emulated across the Andes in order to prevent other countries in the region from becoming failed states.

And now that we have telescopes that can see planets around stars not our own, and we've found rogue planets drifting in empty space and brown dwarfs objects that blur the very line between planet and star the word planet becomes even less clear.

So it should be no surprise that old injuries are likely to resurface. Some Chinese, especially those who are not economically successful, harp bitterly on Japan s past depredations.

The only half way good news is that progress continues on a third building block ensuring that weapons usable materials, and weapons themselves, currently stored in multiple locations in 32 countries, do not fall into the hands of rogue states or terrorists.

Although Kanter's defence of Gulen will sound familiar to anyone who has lost friends or family to cults, his family's disownment of him is equally worrying, as media comparisons between Turkey in 2016 and the purges of the Stalin era Soviet Union continue to bear fruit.

As was evidenced by the rocket attacks launched from Lebanese territory by rogue elements last October and November, the failure of the Lebanese Government to deploy its armed forces in sufficient numbers to ensure a calm environment throughout the area poses a grave threat to peace and security there.