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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
Host im excited t. We got our members from across the world joining us for this conversation. Ive been talking about it nonstop over the last few days to the point of annoying quite few friends. But were all very, very excited to learn from you today. So, to remind everybody the context of our conversation today, together with alex, were going to be learning how to compete in a world where no advantage is safe. So this concept of always day one is something we can all benefit from. When alex started writing the book im sure he wasnt exactly expecting it to be released in midst of a pandemic. However, in my view, this topic could not be more relevant especially these tase when so many of us are forced to have that day one mentality. So, help us kick off alex id love to ask you, what you found to be so important about this topic that you wanted to focus your sights on really going deep and the leading ceos and Tech Companies, what guest really ive always focuses on culture, organizationa
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
Can i get everybodys attention . Thank you for putting up with me one more time. I think it will just can i get everybodys attention . It is my great privilege to introduce the senator from new york, senator schumer. [ applause ] thank you very much, eric. And thank all of you, those in government and out, who are working on these issues, which are so important to both the National Security of our country and to the future economy of our country as well, the two sort of combined. And so i thank you for the commission for the good work it has done. I want to thank eric and bob schmidt for getting me to speak here. When congress set up the commission, i couldnt think of two better folks to lead it, and so i very much appreciate that, because this is one of the issues that is probably the most important facing us, if you looked at the ratio of how much attention this issue gets in terms of what government should be doing, as opposed to its importance, its one of the lowest ratios that the