Ellis Krauss Discusses Obama-Noda Summit Meeting on KCBS-SF
04/30/2012
KCBS San Francisco
President Barack Obama says aggressive actions by North Korea are a sign of weakness not of strength.
Today he met with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda where they agreed to continue discussion on how to confront belligerence from Pyongyang. Those acts include North Korea's recent failed rocket launch and the expectation that it could soon undertake its third-ever nuclear test.
For more, we're joined live on the KCBS newsline by Ellis Krauss who is a professor of International Relations and Pacific Studies specializing in Japanese politics and U.S.-Japan relations. He's at UC San Diego.
Click here to listen to the interview (mp3 file).
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Ellis Krauss is a leading expert on Japanese politics, U.S.-Japan relations, and Japan's political economy. In 2010 Cornell University Press will publish his latest book, co-authored with Robert Pekkanen of the University of Washington, The Rise and Fall of Japan's LDP: Political Party Organizations as Institutions.
He can provide commentary on domestic politics in Japan, the Japanese mass media, U.S.-Japan relations and Japan's foreign policy and role in Asia.
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