Victor Cha

We're not in the BRAC studio at CSIS because we decided to do this episode within the last 12 hours or so.

I'm your host, Victor Cha, president and of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department at CSIS, Korea Chair, and Professor Georgetown.

And of course, on such short notice, we can count on the tried, true, and trustee Sid Seiler to join us for this episode, a veteran of the show, of course, a co-host of the show, and also the person, the person probably on the entire planet who is best positioned to answer questions about what just happened in China.

uh sid seiler is a non-resident senior advisor with us here at csis and the korea chair he was the national intelligence officer for north korea at the national intelligence council u.s special envoy for the six party talks director for korea on the national security council he's done it all um so sid welcome back to the show on such short notice thanks for joining us

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For more on the Korean Peninsula, visit our microsite beyondparallel at csis.org. Until next time, I'm Victor Cha, and this is The Impossible State.

Welcome back to another episode of the Impossible State Podcast at CSIS.

I'm your host, Victor Cha, president of geopolitics and foreign policy here at CSIS.

I'm also the career chair and a professor at Georgetown University.

I'm delighted today to welcome back two veterans of the show, Jenny Town and Ankit Panda.

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And for more on the Korean Peninsula, visit our microsite, Beyond Parallel, at beyondparallel.csis.org. Until next time, I'm Victor Cha, and this is The Impossible State.

But not everyone is so pessimistic.

Victor Cha with the Center for Strategic and International Studies says the Iran war and Korea's desire to preserve a good relationship with the U.S. may lead the country to take more risk and pay more than it otherwise would.

This is a longer-term investment in energy security, and it's a long-term investment in the alliance relationship with the United States.

But the Alaska project is far from the only option for customers for U.S. allies seeking gas from friendly shores.

Welcome to another episode of The Impossible State podcast at CSIS.

I'm your host, Victor Cha, President of Geopolitics and Foreign Policy, Korea Chair at CSIS and Professor at Georgetown University.

And today we are joined by two distinguished Korean journalists.

Uh, we welcome back Mr. Wonchul Kim, who is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Hankyoreh.

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If you're interested in learning more about the work and research you do, visit our microsite, beyondparallel@csis.org. Um, so until next time, I'm Victor Cha, and this is the Impossible State.

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