On the same day U.S. envoy James Kelley left for Beijing, a secret Donald Rumsfeld memo was leaked calling for regime change in North Korea. President Bush has made no secret of his disdain for Kim Jong-il, but the Rumsfeld memo leads some to question the administration’s policy on how to resolve tensions on the Korean Penninsula.
Guests:
Rob Gifford, Beijing correspondent for NPR
Ashton Carter, Co-Director of the Preventive Defense Project and Professor of Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy 1993-1996
Selig Harrison, Director of the National Security Program at the Center for International Policy and Director of the Century Foundation’s Project on the United States and the Future of Korea.
