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 | |  | | | Context Q&A with Robert Litwak The rhetoric emanating from North Korea has been alarmingly aggressive and threatening. How seriously should South Korea and the United States take threats of nuclear attacks from the North? And how much do we really know about North Korea's nuclear capabilities and ability to attack the U.S. and its allies? Other interviews with Robert Litwak: CFR | A New Containment Policy for Iran, North Korea Diane Rehm | Assessing the North Korean Threat | |  | The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Event Video New York Times national security correspondent and former Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar Mark Mazzetti releases his new book, on the CIA's shadow war, written while he was at the Center. | "The United States fought three wars after 9/11: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the one in the shadows. This is an authoritative account of that that third war, conducted by the CIA and military Special Operators in Yemen, East Africa, and, most of all, Pakistan. If you want to understand the world we live in, you need to read it."
—Thomas E. Ricks, author of Fiasco and The Generals |  | In Venezuela, Will 'Chavismo' Last Without Hugo Chavez? "Chavez's designated successor, Nicolas Maduro, will face significant challenges in keeping together the disparate elements of the Chavez coalition, especially at a time of mounting economic difficulties and increases in Venezuela's already astronomical levels of crime and violence," writes Cindy Arnson on PBS Newshour's The Rundown. | | |  | This Week's Issues: America's Borders: North & South
On this episode of Dialogue at the Wilson Center we present a discussion of America's borders. We begin with a look northward. Our guest is the director of the Wilson Center's Canada Institute David Biette. We also turn our sights south to the U.S.-Mexico border with Christopher Wilson, an associate with the Wilson Center's Mexico Institute. | | | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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