Hello Australia!! - Spies confirm North Korea's nuclear intentions - Ireland's Leo calls out immigration critics - Americans protest Trump's awful immigration policies - And more in your CareerSpot Global News Briefs:

US intelligence agencies believe North Korea has secretly increased fuel production for its nuclear weapons arsenal.  "There is absolutely unequivocal evidence that they are trying to deceive the US," said one official to NBC News.  "Work is ongoing to deceive us on the number of facilities, the number of weapons, the number of missiles," said another.  This is directly in conflict with the orange clown Donald Trump's claim that "there is no longer a nuclear threat from North Korea", after his ridiculous summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.  The danger for the rest of the world is that these are the same US intelligence agencies that Trump is ignoring over their reports of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

A US diplomat with 33 years of experience and institutional memory is quitting over the orange clown's near-total economic and diplomatic illiteracy.  US Ambassador to Estonia James D. Melville Jr. served under six presidents and 11 secretaries of state, but revealed the reason he resigned in disgust on his social media accounts: "For (Trump) to say the EU was 'set up to take advantage of the United States, to attack our piggy bank,' or that 'NATO is as bad as NAFTA' is not only factually wrong, but proves to me that it's time to go," he wrote in a post obtained by Foreign Policy magazine.  Trump made his idiotic and uninformed comments at a campaign-style rally before a crowd of xenophobic rubes in North Dakota last week.  This comes less than two weeks before the clown is to meet (and likely offend) NATO allies in Europe, which will be followed by a face-to-arse meeting with the man who pulls his strings, Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

Thousands of people in all 50 US states (plus the District of Columbia) demonstrated against Trump's policy of separating children from their asylum-seeking parents at the southern border and shipping them off into secretive facilities.  There were more than 700 such rallies spread out in liberal cities and conservative rural districts as people made their displeasure known.  Approximately 30,000 people marched across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City chanting, "Immigrants built this bridge," to the Brooklyn immigration office where they yelled, "Shame!"  One of the most poignant signs was displayed in El Paso, Texas:  reading, "I really do care.  Do you?" it spoofed the jacket worn by first lady Melania Trump last week when she went to a border facility where stolen children were being housed (and apparently didn't meet any children).

Is the Prime Minister the head of the Italian government, or is right-wing Interior Minister Matteo Salvini of the xenophobic League party?  Salvini declared that Italy will no longer accept migrants who were rescued from the Mediterranean Sea by boats operated by charities. This, as a ship operated by the Spanish NGO "Proactiva Open Arms" is looking for a port to offload some 40 migrants rescued from a wreck off the coast of Libya. 

At the same time, Salvini praised the immigration deal reached by EU leaders late last week that critics are now noting doesn't seem to have a lot of detail.  It calls for the creation of immigration processing centers, but France is refusing to host any.  Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar criticized xenophobes by saying, "Europe needs immigration," and noting that the current immigration crisis is purely political because the number of migrants heading into Europe now is down 95 percent from the peak in 2015.

The DR Congo will allow oil exploration in in two protected wildlife parks, Virunga and Salonga, where endangered forest elephants, gorillas, and bonobos live.  Green campaigners drilling would place wildlife at risk and contribute to global warming.  Both parks are UNESCO World Heritage sites.