Charles Armstrong

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Tensions reach boiling point on Korean peninsula

North Korea has threatened to wage a ‘full-scale war’ against South Korea after the country accused its northern neighbor of sinking a warship on March 26. We talk with Charles Armstrong, director of the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University.

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