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A conversation about Russia with Alexander Vershbow
with Alexander Vershbow on Nov 6, 2003
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with Alexander Vershbow on Nov 6, 2003
Alexander Vershbow is the United States Ambassador to South Korea; he was appointed to the position in October 2005. Before that post he had been the ambassador to the Russian Federation from 2001 to 2005 and the ambassador to NATO from 1998 to 2001. For his work with NATO he was awarded the State Department’s Distinguished Service Award.
Early in his tenure as ambassador to South Korea he has generated controversy by continuing the hard line on North Korea begun by his predecessor Christopher Hill. In January 2006 his attempt to meet with the Korea Internet Journalists’ Association, which describes itself as ‘progressive’, was blocked by protestors from the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions.
Together with Christopher Hill, who is now the US envoy to South Korea, Vershbow has also pioneered a strategy of speaking directly to the Korean people through the internet and by actually appearing and speaking at street rallies.
