Good morning. It is great to see so many familiar faces this morning. Were looking forward to a timely event as we address the threat post by north korea and u. S. Policy options. Todays event will be livestream here incourage guests our mind to join in on the conversation on twitter. Fdd. An find that at also please silence your cell phones this morning. And placed ahead of the conversation to todays moderator from the associated press. Thanks a lot. Thank you for being here. Andas been a confusing frightening past several months when it comes to north korea, and confusing for americans, people in guam, south korea, japan. On the one hand, weve seen a level of saber rattling you do not typically see between Nuclear Armed nations, in a sense that we are closer to potential actual military conflict between the u. S. And north korea then perhaps we have been. On the other hand, you hear those in the administration are doing that they are actually doing that there are actually signs that
Team. If we look at what the president is saying today, his secretary of state and security advisor, we would give a different answer. The russian behavior has changed completely. Another possibility that president assad they did not pass the test, that is also a disability. Another disability is that the president has discovered something new and incriminating about russian conflict or discover something important that we he was not aware of regarding and american anyway, this is a very important, interesting and difficult topic and i am looking forward to the conversation. We will start with director of the center for european russia and european and professor of georgetown university, who has written numerous books and articles on russia. She has a background as a scholar and a practitioner. She has also traveled to russia on a number of vocation number of locations. Thank you very much, dimitri. These are tough question. I will spend most of my time talking about what does russia w
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