So thank you all for sticking around for our panel and im sure it comes as no surprise that we would be discussing north korea today given the increased tensions on the Korean Peninsula and the north korean policy review. That President Trump has just completed. sover north korea watchers, when he 17 has been an interesting year. The President Trump decided to review policy for north korea shortly after his inauguration and he came back with a policy that emphasizes maximum pressure and engagement but there has been signals on what exactly the United States let me looking for from north korea before entering into negotiations. South korea also has a new president. He has expressed an interest in talking to the North Koreans but again, under what conditions still remains somewhat an openended question and of course in north korea weve seen a number of Ballistic Missile tests already in 2017 including some new systems. And all of this is leading up to the summit that trump and moon j in
With the latest history news. While working at the Rand Corporation in 1967, Daniel Ellsberg became a consultant to the Defense Department in the white house, giving him access to classified and topsecret documents. He photocopied a study that later became known as the pentagon papers. In 1971 he gave those documents to the new york times. Coming up next, part one of a twopart interview with Daniel Ellsberg. He talks about his opinions on the vietnam war and the leaking of the pentagon papers. The Richard Nixon president ial library conducted this interview. This portion is about one hour and 20 minutes. Right from the beginning and until late in 1971 for a couple of years, i always thought for the pentagon papers to have any effect, they should be the basis for congressional hearing. Precisely because i knew they did not tell the whole story for an adequate story. I knew a lot of what was excluded from them and what you needed was oral testimony preferably under oath of people who rea
In this April interview with a longtime friend, Daniel Ellsberg, most widely known for leaking the Pentagon Papers, explains why he wanted to focus on his main concern in life, nuclear war. Ellsberg died today at age 92.