The loose arrangement of hostile powers could pose a series of conundrums for President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state.

U.S. Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio on Wednesday accused "rough states" and "dictators" in North Korea, Russia and Iran of sowing "chaos" and "instability," and China of having "lied, cheated and stolen" its way into a global superpower status at the expense of the United

With China unlikely to condemn North Korean troop deployment in Russia, the United States should leverage international institutions to build a coalition of states willing to delegitimise North Korean military support.