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I'm Tamara Keith here with a Saturday bonus episode for you.

It's the most recent episode of NPR's National Security podcast, Sources and Methods,

where NPR reporters who cover the military, state department, and spy agencies break down

the biggest Nats sec news of the week. We're going to share these episodes

each Saturday for a couple of weeks because their show is a lot like ours, and we think you'll

like it. You might even hear us on there from time to time. New episodes drop every Thursday,

and you can follow the show wherever you listen to this one. So here you go, sources and methods, the new

national security podcast from NPR. So I was talking to this U.S. official I've known for years,

and he said, this is a new way ahead. And I said, you guys aren't going to shoot on the land

in Venezuela, are you? He wouldn't answer, but he said, this will continue.

The might of the U.S. military trained against South American drug cartels,

as three men, the leaders of U.S. adversaries, rivals China, Russia, and North Korea,

stand shoulder to shoulder for the very first time.

This is sources and methods from NPR.

I'm Mary Louise Kelly. Every Thursday, we discuss the biggest national security stories of the week.

I do that with my colleagues from NPR's NETSEC team covering the military, the state

department, the intelligence community, and also with NPR international correspondence stationed

around the world. Today, that is Anthony Kuhn. He's here in the middle of the night for him,

13 hours ahead of us in Seoul, South Korea, his home base reporting on the region.

Anthony, good evening, good morning.

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