North Korea has nukes. At least that’s what it’s leaders are saying. Resolving the North Korea situation couldn’t be more difficult or more delicate. The North Koreans want to sit down face to face with the United States. The U.S. is refusing, saying, “we don’t negotiate with tyrants.”
President Bush is still insisting on six party talks with the Russians, Chinese, Japanese and South Koreans at the table. And as the war of words escalates speculation about whether Kim Jong Il truly has the bomb, and is parnoid enough to use it, has the entire world watching and waiting and wondering if confrontation or diplomacy is the answer.
Guests:
Congressman Tom Lantos, (D-CA), ranking Democratic member of the House International Relations Committee;
Jack Prichard, former U.S. Ambassador to North Korea, currently a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution;
Graham Allison, Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.