Ratcheting Up the Pressure on North Korea
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2010-07-22/ratcheting-pressure-north-korea
Presidential advisors, including from right, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki, Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. David Petraeus, Commander, U.S. Central Command, at West Point, December 2009
Official White House photo by Pete Souza via the White House photostream on Flickr
Secretary of State Clinton and Defense Secretary Gates ratchet up the pressure on North Korea during a visit to the region. They announced new sanctions and a large naval exercise in the Sea of Japan. An update on the tensions along the Korean peninsula.
Guests
Barbara Demick
Beijing bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times and author of "Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea"
Joel Wit
former State Department official and current Visiting Fellow at Johns Hopkins. Founder of its website on North Korea, "38 North" which can be found at 38north.org.
Amb. Wendy Sherman
Vice Chair of the Albright Stonebridge Group. She is former special advisor to President Clinton and Secretary of State Albright, and was Counselor for the State Department and North Korea policy coordinator in the Clinton Administration.
Victor Cha
the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; professor of government at Georgetown University School of Foreign Service; former director of Asian Affairs at the White House National Security Council during the Bush administration.
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Hi Diane,
In China, the government takes advantage of this joint military exercise to increase the Chinese’s hostility to America, especially emphasizing the American carrier will drill in the Yellow sea, where the Chinese great defeat came from in 1900’s. People think America don’t really care North Korea, whose exercise imaginary aim is China.
What’s your panel’s comment?
Thanks
I'm curious about how the public in South Korea see policy toward the North. Is perspective in South Korea divided among those who favor a harsher approach and those who prefer providing aid and entering into negotiation, etc.? Or, is the South Korean people's sentiment more unified... and if so, what is the sentiment?
Thanks!
'Cept fer the part where the exercise isn't in the Yellow Sea. And the last thing we want is to increase tensions with China. What would that get us? Nothing. China tends to go out of their way to promote regional instability, albeit for selfish reasons, but they do nonetheless.
We don't want to fight China in this instance, what we want is the peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula under South Korea. If you weren't aware, S. Korea is CONSTITUTIONALLY obligated to reunify with N. Korea. Although China wants N. Korea to stay exactly the way it is. It's in their interests to stay distanced from an upcoming economic power and a U.S. involvement, and at the same time, avoid any instability that may lead to a refugee influx.