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Intelligence Matters

The Future of the Kim Regime: North Korea Expert Sue Mi Terry

Intelligence Matters

CBS News

(154991), News, Cbs, Politics, Government

4.63.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Sue Mi Terry, former senior CIA analyst and current Director of the Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Wilson Center, about North Korea's record-breaking spate of missile tests in 2022 and its overall approach to the Biden administration. Terry and Morell discuss the stances struck by Russia and China to Pyongyang's newly aggressive behavior, as well as the prospects for changes in the Kim regime's behavior. Terry also identifies some burgeoning fissures in North Korean society and discusses growing concerns about leader Kim Jong Un's health. 

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0:00.0

This is Intelligence Matters with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morel.

0:06.4

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0:14.3

I don't think Kim Jong-un's goal has changed,

0:17.1

which is, ultimately, get the international community to accept North Korea as new group weapons power

0:23.6

and just live with it.

0:24.6

And more and more, we are doing that just recently with this intermediate range for the Somasotas.

0:30.2

Even the media doesn't care, the Americans don't care, South Koreans don't care.

0:34.8

We are now sort of living with it.

0:36.8

So the more they do this,

0:38.8

the more they condition international community to accept North Korea.

0:45.9

Sumitari is the director of the Center for Korean History and Public Policy at the Wilson Center,

0:51.7

a Washington, D.C. think tank.

0:54.0

Sue, a former CIA analyst, has been on our program many times before,

0:58.2

talking about issues related to the Korean Peninsula.

1:01.6

We just caught up with Sue to talk again about North Korea.

1:04.9

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1:08.5

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