{"id":15056,"date":"2010-11-24T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=15056"},"modified":"2010-11-24T14:31:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T18:31:20","slug":"interview-evans-reveres-insight-on-north-koreas-provocations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/24\/interview-evans-reveres-insight-on-north-koreas-provocations\/","title":{"rendered":"INTERVIEW: Evans Revere on North Korea’s provocations"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Ellis-Guardiola<\/a> (Miyagi, 2002-04)\u00a0is a NYC-based TV news producer who worked for the New York Bureau of\u00a0Tokyo Broadcasting System\u00a0and is now at the Reuters CCTV\u00a0desk. \u00a0At TBS he covered many topics, especially related to North Korea and the U.N. \u00a0You can follow his blog at\u00a0jelgua.wordpress.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Thanksgiving 2010 will be another U.S. holiday peppered with news from North Korea. \u00a0This is a pattern – July 4, 2006, missiles; Memorial Day 2009, nuclear test.\u00a0With the latest news about cross-border firing on the Korean Peninsula, I asked\u00a0Evans Revere<\/a><\/strong>, a former senior U.S. diplomat, a Senior Director at the Albright Stonebridge Group, and Diplomat-in-Residence at the Woodrow Wilson School, for his insight. \u00a0He kindly provided these answers via email.<\/h3>\n

Q: How do you interpret the most recent provocations on the Korean Peninsula and the revelation of centrifuges to Dr. Hecker? Some suggest this most recent round of belligerence is related to leadership succession issues. What is your take?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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A: My own sense is that the leadership\/succession issues have long since been decided. The course that North Korea is on has been set for some time, and the recent Korean Workers’ Party meeting that anointed Kim Jong Un as the next leader when his father passes brought to a conclusion a long, complicated, and secretive process that was set in motion when Kim Jong Il took ill in the summer of 2008. \u00a0Now that the course has been set, the North Koreans are moving on several fronts. If anything, recent developments in the military and nuclear arenas probably have the blessing of both the older and the younger Kim. There are credible reports that the two visited… \u00a0 \u00a0Click here<\/a> <\/strong>to read more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Ellis-Guardiola (Miyagi, 2002-04)\u00a0is a NYC-based TV news producer who worked for the New York Bureau of\u00a0Tokyo Broadcasting System\u00a0and is now at the Reuters CCTV\u00a0desk. \u00a0At TBS he covered many topics, especially related to North Korea and the U.N. \u00a0You can follow his blog at\u00a0jelgua.wordpress.com. Thanksgiving 2010 will be another U.S. holiday peppered with news […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t