March
7, 2003
Standoff on the Korean
Peninsula: Talking with Calvin Chen
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Photo:
Fred LeBlanc
Calvin
Chen, Luce Assistant Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke,
is an expert on the political economy of East Asia, particularly
Chinese politics and the industrialization of the Chinese
countryside. |
With the revelation
that North Korea has missiles capable of reaching the West Coast
of the United States, last Sunday's interception by four
North Korean jet fighters of a U.S. spy plane in international
airspace over the Sea of Japan, and the recent dispatch by President
Bush of twenty-four B-52 and B-1 bombers to the United States
Pacific base on Guam, the situation on the Korean Peninsula seems
to be escalating each day. Is North Korea using nuclear blackmail?
Is leader Kim Jong Il a crazy man or a shrewd strategist—or
both? Is the North Korean regime an albatross? Janet Tobin, editor
of the College Street Journal, recently asked these and
other questions during a conversation with Calvin Chen, Luce Assistant
Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke, about the situation in
North Korea. Chen is an expert on the political economy of East
Asia, particularly Chinese politics and the industrialization
of the Chinese countryside. more>
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