Im todd come host of the take with them Public Radio International and wnyc and is a pleasure to be invited to host this panel today and i been excited about it as ive been preparing because the issue of north korea is rising to the forefront of americas, americans mice. These are experts with me and youre all well versed in this topic, too, and Many Americans with first time in a long time are starting to take a lot harder look about north korea, the potential threat and what it means for them to everybody in washington is thinking about it so im glad to be here and im glad to be part of this. Im joined by four panelists who bring a wide range of perspectives on north n korea. First is our host who is the u. S. Institute of peace expert focusing on Korean Peninsula issues from 2001 until this year. Year. Frank served as a Senior Advisor for north korea into office of the secretary of defense. Welcome. [applause] he is your host, after all. Chief of the pyongyang bureau. [applause] she
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It is the middle is, or the ukraine. Where ever you look, there are so many problems. Alter the lee i believe that we are going to get rid of most of those problems and there will not be fear anybody. We have a very big pile of north korea and as isaidi very big pile of north korea and as isaid i really very big pile of north korea and as i said i really think that china it will try very hard. And it has already started. Yesterday and today they have penned back whole boats. The vast amount of colbert penned back, they tend back the boats. Turn back the whole boats. It may be effective it may not be effective. It may not be affected but we will be effective. I can promise you that. Thank you. Nato has constantly confirmed the use of chemical weapons in syria. The use of chemical weapons is horrendous. It isa chemical weapons is horrendous. It is a clear violation of international law. Any use of chemical weapons is unacceptable and cannot go unanswered, so those responsible is must be
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The moderate forthis. Im the foundereder to of angry asian man. Com. Thank you. ,hen so lets see here. How shall we go about this. Let me talk about this panel itself. So i was on the last years version of this panel as a panelist last year. When i was asked to be on the panel, i was like, what kind of you know, it was Something Like the title was something about covering the asianamerican community. I was like, that seems really broad. I was like, u asianamerican community, yes. And through the course of the actual panel, it occurred to me, oh, i understand what this panel is about. Because you know, i dont know if you are familiar with what i do on angry asian men but i cover the asian community, several hours a day upon day upon day. Thats what i do. I realize that a lot of people attending here might be coming from news rooms where the some people here or some of you might find that to be a challenge in your own news rooms. So hopefully, you know, this panel, you will be able to wa