Why North Korea's nuclear program is so difficult to stop: Fmr. Amb. Chris Hill

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🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Chris Hill, Former Ambassador to the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Dean of the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, joins Chuck to talk about the history behind North Korea nuclear program, and why pressuring China is the only way to solve the problem.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:05.0	Meet the press.
0:09.5	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast this week.
0:14.4	If you talk to a lot of national security experts,
0:16.9	both inside this administration and outside,
0:21.0	many of them will say the nearest term threat is Korea.
0:25.9	It's not ISIS, it's not anything else,
0:27.4	but it is North Korea.
0:29.6	So I figured in the way we did a nice deep dive,
0:32.8	a few months back on all things Putin.
0:35.3	It's time to do a deep dive on all things in North Korea,
0:38.0	trying to understand this regime.
0:39.6	Best person I could think of is Chris Hill,
0:42.6	a former ambassador to South Korea for the United States.
0:45.3	He's also, of course, was a former ambassador to Iraq,
0:47.7	veteran foreign service guy,
0:50.1	but knows the Korea conundrum about as well
0:54.1	as any American official.
0:55.8	Mr. Hill, welcome to 1947.
0:58.5	Thank you very much.
1:00.0	So let's start with a little bit of history here.
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