Few Korea Hands On Obama Administration’s Asia Leadership Team -- The Cable/Foreign Policy
As the world wakes up to the reality of a heightened crisis with North Korea following its latest nuclear test, the Obama administration finds itself with remarkably few Korea experts at the top of its Asia policy team.
North Korea confirmed Monday it had detonated a nuclear bomb for the third time, blatantly disregarding United Nations resolutions and the repeated warnings of the international community. The U.N. Security Council scrambled to call a Tuesday meeting on the incident and U.S. President Barack Obama issued a strongly worded statement of condemnation early Tuesday morning.
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My Comment: I am sure that in the lower ranks there are people who are very capable on understanding the events that are happening on the Korean peninsula. But it is also true that if the men and women at the top lack that language and cultural connection with the Koreans .... something will be missing.