Terry to roll out the new book which rolled up today. Her book titled becoming kim jong un a former cia officers insights into north koreas enigmatic young dictator could not be more timely. The book provides a masterful insight into who kim jongun is, what makes him tick, and what keeps them up at night. The book is already earned wide praise from among the leading thinkers and for the policy practitioners dita with north korea. Were fortunate that jung and sue will spend the next hour with us breaking that when you dont about how north korea operates, who kim jongun is, and what is going on in north korea these days. They bring a wealth of knowledge to this conversation. They both are former intelligence analysts who represent the very best of their previous profession. They each were tremendous colleagues while in government and their tremendous friends to me now. In addition to being deeply informed, kind, and deadly sport, they also a ton of fun. So before i turn it over to jung a
Into the and i demonic young dictate dictator could not be more timely. The book provides insight into who kim jong un is, what makes him tick and what to tell up at night. The book has earned wide praise from among the leading thinkers and former policy practitionersdealing with north korean issues and were fortunate that they will for the next hour with us down what we need to know about how north korea operates , who jung pak who kim jong un is and what is going on in north korea so welcome them to this conversation. They both areformer intelligence analysts who represent the best of their previous professions. They each were tremendous colleagues while in government and they are tremendous friends now. In addition to being deeply informed , kind and deadly smart, they are also a ton of fun so before i turn it over to jung and sue, we are collecting many questions from members of the audience and welcome you to send more. Do so by sending an email to events at brookings. Edu or via
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
Educe the national debt. As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. It is 7 00 eastern time here in washington. The start of a holiday week. Congress returning in two weeks. President trump spending christmas with his family in florida. It is monday, december 23. We begin our first hour with Foreign Policy. The leaders of china, south korea and japan meeting today in beijing it. Comes as the pentagon and u. S. Officials are on, quote, high alert, after new threats over the weekend by north korea. In the past President Trump has said that he and president kim jong un fell in love. But since that comment back in february, talks have broken down. We want to get your reaction to these developments in north korea, what it means for the u. S. And for the region. 2027488001, thats our line for republicans. 2027488922 for democrats. 2027488002 if oure democrats. Or on twit or facebook. Good m
A transactional arrangement you need to pay us to defend you well decide later if that security guarantee is is good if you buy a lot of weapons so should we bring something its a hit toward you to use words quid pro quo but that has a transactional dimension to it to show americans that theyre getting something out of these commitments well i guess i think not only is there an enormous enormous amount of continuity in our Alliance Structure and i would argue kelly thats because it works in the Alliance Structures sustain because people feel like theyre giving the values to your point i mean when the data ive looked at in the polling is nato is actually more popular no more americans and its actually more popular among conservatives so there isnt really a kind of a run away from europe attitude in the American Public that i mean thats what the data is that. Part of it though i agree with you it is the. Rhetoric. Hey people need to pay up and have skin in the game because i think americ