A discussion about North Korea

with Christopher Hill, David Sanger and Jeffrey Bader
in Current Affairs
on Tuesday, December 20, 2011 * * * * *

E-mail this video:

Distribute this video:

Share on:

Close
Description

A discussion about North Korea and the death Kim Jong-il with David Sanger of The New York Times, Jeffrey Bader of the Brookings Institution and Christopher Hill

Video Share Options
Share
Buy Amazon DVD
Keywords:
dictator
Kim Jong-Il
North Korea
Asia

In order to download Charlie Rose podcasts to iTunes for transfer to an iPod, you must have iTunes installed. If you do, please click the following link to download the podcast for this interview:

itpc://www.charlierose.com/view/itunes/12050

Otherwise, close this window to continue viewing.

Close
  • Comments 4
    Post new comment
    1. Gelles  12/22/2011 06:47 AM Report

      "This in a nutshell has been the " [not-foreign, but] ... Middle East ", policy of the US since the end of WWII, and which is now falling apart." -- says REMant.

      The alleged FP is not adequate for the job. And so we are in motion, trying to support a human rights agenda in a region where money is well understood, BUT human competition in winner take all elections dominate the scene, (not minority rights,) are the established norm.

      Is anything to be done? Yes. The interview had common sense advice: do not precipitate violence; do not tolerate proliferation of WMD expertise out of N. Korea. If we cannot do that, what is OUR problem?

    2. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/22/2011 04:11 AM Report

      Charlie, you are correct.

      All roads lead to Beijing.

    3. SharkswithfrikingLazers  12/22/2011 04:10 AM Report

      Charlie, you add an extra "r" in Korea.

      Who was working the closed captioning--need some help.

      A new generation of leadership means new opportunities.

      China provides about half of all North Korean imports and received a quarter of its exports.

      China says North Korea is a "spoiled child" and their nuclear program is "a threat to the whole world's security".[2]

      China, now is the time for some of your fixin'. A new day has begun.

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_China%E2%80%93North_Korea_relations

    4. REMant  12/21/2011 11:47 AM Report

      I got a charge out of this, first because the change in command is really pretty much of a non-issue. Whoever was in charge before Kim's death, is still in charge now. Second North Korea, communist or not, is Korea, not China. It is certainly a throwback of a kind, but I'm not sure yet that I'm ready to say the South Koreans are that much better off for becoming factory hands for the West. Like Cuba a lot of the North's problems stem from the sanctions we've laid on them. And third, because altho I defended Wikileaks in principle, I read none of the documents, but here we evidently have ppl, who, on the one hand, made a great fuss about their release, yet still read them.

      Iran has Iraq on one side and Afghanistan and Pakistan on the other. What would you expect them to think and do? It certainly is true that there's sectarian friction all over the Islamic world, and that we have been friendlier especially since 1980 with the Sunnis. Part of this no doubt stems from a shared philosophical perspective, but we have also relied on keeping in power puppets who once were opposed to us, and in return they've "made peace" with Israel, a bargain with the devil to be sure. This in a nutshell has been the foreign policy of the US since the end of WWII, and which is now falling apart.