North Korea: Averting Nuclear War

 THE G-MAN INTERVIEWS: DR. CHARLES ARMSTRONG

Expert on the Region Urges President Obama to Avoid a
Military Conflict and Find a Solution Before He Leaves Office

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Welcome.

Here to provide more detail on North Korea’s latest act of defiance is Dr. Charles Armstrong, the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences Department of History at Columbia University. 

Dr. Armstrong teaches courses on Korean history, U.S./East Asian relations, the Vietnam War, and global history. 

He is a frequent commentator in the U.S. and foreign mass media on contemporary Korean, East Asian, and Asian-American affairs. 

The interview was conducted on January 12, 2016.

The following links offer more information on Dr. Armstrong and his new book, Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950 - 1992.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/faculty/armstrong.html

http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100484410

Video discussion of Dr. Armstrong's book:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzNSI7xObhA