If Vice President Kamala Harris wins on Nov. 5, her foreign policy going forward “probably would be a continuation of Biden on almost any issue,” according to longtime national security journalist and author Peter Bergen, who engages in an in-depth discussion on the latest Threat Status Influencers video interview exploring how the Harris and Trump campaigns are intersecting with international affairs.

“I think her tone on Gaza is different from [President] Biden. … She tends to emphasize Palestinian suffering, as much as she emphasizes Oct. 7 in the attack on Israel,” says Mr. Bergen, vice president of global studies at the New America think tank in Washington and host of the weekly “In the Room with Peter Bergen” podcast.

With Threat Status, he weighed on a range of issues, including the prospect of a Ukraine-Russia stalemate and the future of al Qaeda and other global terrorist threats. Mr. Bergen, whose 2022 book on former President Donald Trump’s foreign policy team explored the former president’s obsession with the so-called “Deep State,” also weighed in during the Threat Status discussion on what may occur if Mr. Trump attempts to fill the U.S. intelligence community with political appointees should he win the White House a second time.

Mr. Austin made an unannounced visit to Kyiv on Monday as regional tensions mount over Ukrainian intelligence claims that North Korean troops are now training inside Russia for possible deployment to Ukraine.

The claim has sent tensions soaring between North Korea and U.S. ally South Korea. Officials in Seoul on Monday demanded the immediate pullout of North Korean troops allegedly deployed in Russia as it summoned the Russian ambassador to protest deepening military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow. The Russian Embassy responded, via social media, that Moscow’s growing closeness with Pyongyang is “not directed against South Korea’s security interests.”

Speculation and unease are running high around the developments. Washington Times Asia Editor Andrew Salmon reports from Seoul that from a geopolitical standpoint, any actual combat alliance between Russia and North Korea — both of which are authoritarian powers — would far outstrip the modest, nonbinding security links forged between Atlantic and Pacific democracies in recent years.

A deployment to Ukraine would make North Korea the first outside nation to directly join the hostilities in Ukraine, while altering the dynamics within the so-called “axis of authoritarianism” challenging the U.S.-led postwar international order.

The U.S. and a group of key allies are joining forces to keep tabs on North Korean violations of economic and security sanctions after Russia torpedoed the monitoring effort authorized by the United Nations.

The new Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team, or MSMT, was announced recently to replace the U.N. “Panel of Experts” — a body that had been operating since 2009, but has been undermined since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine created a distinct cleavage at the U.N. Security Council. In March, Russia vetoed a resolution to extend the Panel of Experts’ mandate and the body was dissolved on April 30.

With ties now expanding between Moscow and Pyongyang, it remains to be seen how effective the MSMT will be in restraining the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. The new monitoring team is backed by Japan, South Korea, the U.S., Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and New Zealand. At a minimum, the MSMT’s formation rankled the Kim regime. North Korea’s foreign minister charged over the weekend that the MSMT is “utterly unlawful and illegitimate,” according to state-controlled media in Pyongyang.

Mr. Trump says he intends to fight against European Union regulators targeting the U.S. tech giant Apple if he returns to the White House next year. The former president said during an appearance on the latest edition of the “PBD Podcast” that he spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook as recently as last week and pledged to push back against fines from foreign regulators.

The EU hit Apple with a $2 billion antitrust penalty in March, accusing it of unfairly favoring its own music streaming service. Apple then lost a bid to avoid paying $14.3 billion in back taxes to Ireland.

Mr. Trump claimed on the PDB Podcast that Mr. Cook estimates the total burden in fines facing Apple from the EU is between $17 billion and $18 billion. The former president said his relationship with Mr. Cook has developed since his previous term in office, when Mr. Trump granted the Apple CEO’s request for help competing against Samsung in exchange for adding manufacturing sites in the United States.

Toppling the theocratic regime in Tehran has become more critical as Iran nears the ability to produce and launch nuclear weapons against Israel and possibly the United States, argues Cal Thomas.

“History proves weakness invites aggression by other nations and terrorist entities,” Mr. Thomas writes. “Iranian elections, which have been fixed by the regime with opponents murdered or jailed, have shown large numbers of Iranians oppose being ruled by the ayatollahs.”

“U.S. policy, whether overt or covert and in cooperation with Israel and even Saudi Arabia, which fears the Iranian government, should be the replacement of the religious fundamentalists with democratically elected leaders,” he argues. “Anything short of that will lead to consequences no one except Iran claims to want.”

• Oct. 23 — European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Europe’s Economic Outlook, Atlantic Council

• Oct. 23 — Explosive Triangle: Israel, Iran, and Hezbollah in Lebanon, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

• Nov. 8-10 — IISS Prague Defense Summit 2024, International Institute for Strategic Studies

• Nov. 22-24 — Halifax International Security Forum

• Dec. 7 — 2024 Reagan National Defense Forum, Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute