Welcome from across the United States and around the world to this live webcast conversation. The book titled becoming a kim jong couldnt be more timely. Its a masterful insight into who he is, what makes him tick its already earned wide praise from among the leading thinkers and former is a practicing Good Practice for. We are fortunate they will break down what we need to know about how they operate, who he is and what is going on in north korea these days. A wealth of knowledge to the conversation they both are former intelligence analysts that represent the very best of the professions. Each tremendous colleagues in government and tremendous friends now. In addition to being deeply informed in the times and smart, they also a lot of fun. Before i turn it over to jung and sue, we will be collecting questions and welcome you. You can do so by sending an email to events brookings. Edu or twitter at becomingkim. Its my delight now to turn over to jung and the sue. Talking about someone
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And we are fortunate to be with the next hour with us, north korea operates, who kim jong un is and what is going on, they both are former intelligence analysts who represent the very best of their previous profession. In addition to be informed, kind, deadly smart, they are also a ton of fun. Before i turn it over to jung and sui do want to know that the numbers of the audience and send more but send an email to events at brookings. Edu or via twitter at becoming kim. With that, we will turn it over to sue and jong. I want to speak about what it is like to cover a country like north korea and person like analyst and analyzing job as analyst of the cia, making the hard call and as you know,i started the cia 2 days before the 911 and your cia career began and your cia covered kim jong un and between us two decades of covering north korea, but we would both agree that north korea is the hardest of hard target country. Talk to us about your job and north korea analyst in the intelligence
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Rallies. And driving development at the daka rally, one car lays down the challenge to make the race cleaner and greener. So then we begin in iraq where the army marked the 94th anniversary but instead of the usual big military parade the celebrations are reduced to a wreath laying ceremony and battling i. S. I. L. That seized large parts of the country and we are in irbil in Northern Iraq and given the problems Iraqi Military has had its no surprise this event has been marked in such a lowkey way. Indeed, nick these are very tough times for iraq army and have had months of turbulence and many with the iraqi army and absent from the ceremony today were the pump and color which this day was celebrated the 94th birthday of the army but its a lowkey event which the Prime Minister and a few other government officials lay a wreath of the unknown soldier. Now, the iraqi army has had a checkered history and at one point been one of the Strongest Army in the middle east however, six months ago