Behind the News: Tim Shorrock and Vijay Prashad
Jacobin Radio
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4.7 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, Hello and |
| 0:35.0 | show Tim Shorok will pick apart U.S. relations with North Korea |
| 0:40.0 | and V.J. Pishad will make sense of the rights victory in India's election. |
| 0:44.0 | First, North Korea, which has been much in the news. |
| 0:47.0 | National Security Advisor and UberHawk John Bolton would probably want to turn it to a smoking room, |
| 0:52.0 | but Trump blows hot and cold in the |
| 0:54.3 | issue. What's it all mean? Here's Tim Schorock with some answers. Tim who's buying this show many |
| 0:59.6 | times before has written extensively on Korean affairs for the nation and many other outlets. |
| 1:04.4 | Tim Short. |
| 1:05.7 | Now we're hearing that Trump and Bolton are somewhat split on Korean policy. |
| 1:11.2 | It's really hard to figure out what the hell is going on anywhere |
| 1:14.0 | but what do you make in this alleged split between Bolton and Trump what do they |
| 1:19.2 | want either separate leader together? There's a bit of a split, but at the same time I think Trump is covering up the fact that they're |
| 1:27.4 | basically in sync. |
| 1:29.1 | And Trump has been following the bulletin line pretty closely since he came into position as National Security |
| 1:35.7 | Advisor. |
| 1:36.7 | In terms of North Korea, the very hard line that Bolton has been promoting for some time. |
| 1:43.6 | Came out when Trump met with Kim Jong-on in Anoy |
| 1:47.7 | for their second summit, and there was a lot of optimism beforehand by people that were watching the situation closely and |
| 1:56.4 | covering it very closely for the nation. |
| 1:58.5 | You know, it seemed like they were moving toward some kind of interim agreement under which North Korea would give up part of its nuclear |
| 2:06.4 | weapons system and the US would perhaps drop some sanctions that have been posed on them and |
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