Does the US have a new reason to be concerned about North Korea’s arsenal?

How could North Korea react to military strikes on Syria?

The South Korean Defense Ministry issued a report Tuesday claiming that North Korea has the capability to launch a missile with a nuclear warhead. Given Syria’s diplomatic relationship with North Korea, could an American strike on Syria spur North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to retaliate? Greg Scarlatoiu, the executive director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, and Gordon Chang, the author of “Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World,” will join Consider This host Antonio Mora to discuss the issue.

How is Israel reacting to the Syrian crisis?

As the United States weighs taking military action against the Syrian government, Israel and the United States jointly tested a new defense missile system on Tuesday. Chuck Freilich, a senior fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard’s Kennedy School and a former deputy national security adviser in Israel, and Janine Zacharia, a journalist and visiting lecturer at Stanford University, join Antonio Mora to explore the situation.

Are patent trolls harming businesses?

Some companies, in particular technology start-ups, are facing major legal battles in court as “patent trolls,” owners of patents for general concepts, sue the companies, saying their ideas were stolen. DoubleClick founder Kevin O’Connor, who sold his company to Google for $3.1 billion, discusses his own legal case with his new start-up FindTheBest and the larger trend of patent trolling with Antonio Mora.

Use of the N-word

On Tuesday, a federal jury in New York ruled in favor of Brandi Johnson, an African-American employee of an employment agency who sued her African-American boss for using the “N-word” in front of her during an outburst in the workplace. Keli Goff, a political analyst and author, Neal Lester, an English professor at Arizona State University, and Edward Wyckoff Williams, a columnist and political analyst, talk about the use of the controversial word with Antonio Mora.