popham talks about his biography of burma s aung san suu kyi is a longtime opposition leader and nobel peace prize recipient was elected to the lower house of the burmese parliament on april 1, 2012. in researching the book, he took over trips to burma and interviewed aung san suu kyi. and welcome. i m michael robert, executive director of other programs here at asia society, and i want to welcome you all. it s a great pleasure to present an important and authoritative new biography, one of the most compelling figures of the last 25 years. it s the current embryonic transition in me and more succeeds in bringing that country back after its quarter-century of repression and stagnation and pariah status got a great deal of the credit will be owing to aung san suu kyi. in 1988, as i m sure you all know, she was propelled from the obscurity of an english academic life to become leader of burma s democracy movement. and following her party s 1990 electoral victory in the subsequ
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tokyo, but also in beijing and moscow and possibly even with the europeans. suzanne, president trump saying last week that he would be honored to meet with kim jong-un. for those counterparts in north korea that you met, how did they, i guess, accept that type of statement from the president? was that any type of opening salvo for them to feel encouraged? they acknowledged the comments from the president but offered no specific comment. i think judging by ms. che s response, they took it into their consideration. and again, as i said before, now comes the test. all three of the major players have said that they are open to talks under the right conditions. we now have to find out what those conditions are for each side, and is there any overlap? can you brief us on a timeline about when that might happen? i think judging by the trump