Hello Australia! – A frightening prediction about North Korea – Who is stalking Paris with drones – A dashcam catches incredible video of a house blowing up – Obama defies big oil – And a lot more in your CareerSpot World News Briefs:

North Korea could have 100 atomic weapons in just five years, under a worst-case scenario projected by the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University, probably the world’s foremost think-tank on North Korean issues.  The Institute just completed a 15-month study of activity in the North, and the results aren’t good.  Even at a slow pace, Pyongyang could possess 20 nuclear weapons by 2020.  And European companies might be unwillingly aiding the process by selling equipment to China, which might divert it to North Korea.

Paris police are hunting for clues as to who might have flown radio-controlled drones over at least five landmarks, including the US Embassy and the Eiffel Tower.  This comes in a period of heightened security following last month’s terrorist attacks that killed 17 people.  Last year, drones were seen flying around nuclear power plants, and more recently a drone was seen over the presidential palace.

Just sayin’, it might have been Russia’s RT network.  They’re constantly releasing new drone footage of landmarks and weird sites, such as an abandoned water park in Germany.

Police, firefighters, and gas company workers were searching a neighborhood in Stafford Township, New Jersey.  And according to this video, they found it.  Ka-booom.  15 people were hurt.

US President Barack Obama vetoed a bill to build a massive oil pipeline from the Alberta tar sands in Canada, across the America’s largest aquifer, to port on the Gulf of Mexico for loading onto tankers for the international market.  Environmentalists despised the Keystone XL project, noting that the US gets nothing out of it but shoulders all of the risk.  It’s only Mr. Obama’s third veto of his six years in office.

The head of the United Nations climate change panel has stepped down amidst sex harassment allegations.  A 20-year old woman who worked in the Delhi office of Rajendra Pachauri claims he harassed her with unwanted emails, as well as text and phone messages.  Delhi police are investigating.  In his resignation letter to US Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, 74-year old Pachauri says the situation makes him unable to provide strong leadership on the key issue.

Heirs of Jewish art dealers are suing to recover valuable pieces they say their families were forced to give up by nazi Germany.  The medieval relics, known collectively as “The Guelph Treasure”, are currently in a Berlin museum and believed to be worth more than A$286 Million.  The four art dealers received millions of dollars in 1935 when they sold the pieces to Gestapo founder Hermann Goering.  The German government says the deal was fair, but the heirs say any transactions between nazis and Jews at that time were made under duress and therefore are void.

A job action by Brazilian lorry drivers is starting to affect the economy.  The truckers are blocking roads in protest of high fuel prices and increasing tolls.  But it means that products like milk, beef, and grain aren’t getting to port, and silos are getting backed up.  The government has invited the protest leaders for a meeting in Brasilia to try to reach an agreement.

The former head of Panama’s supreme court has pleaded guilty to corruption charges.  Alejandro Moncada was sentenced to five years in prison.  President Juan Carlos Varela was elected on promises to clean up Panama’s rampant official corruption.  Authorities are new investigating the ex-president who appointed Moncada as well as his immediate predecessor.

A gunman opened fire at a convenience store in Sejong City, South Korea, killing three people.  Private gun ownership is mostly banned in South Korea, and any such crime is extraordinarily rare.  Even registered hunters must keep their weapons at their local police station.