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10:00North Korea

Guest host: Steve Roberts

A panel talks about President Bush's meetings with the leaders of South Korea and Japan, and how the U.S. should conduct its policy toward North Korea to head off a mounting nuclear crisis.

Guests

Kurt Campbell, senior vice president and director of the international security program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Dr. Victor Cha, associate professor of government at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and co-author of "Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies"

11:00Readers' Review: Leif Enger's "Peace Like a River"

Guest host: Steve Roberts

The May Readers' Review panel talks about Leif Enger's tale, set in Minnesota in the early 1960s and told by an asthmatic 11-year-old boy. It's both the story of a man on the run from the law, and of a family's struggle to do what's right.

Guests

Mark La Framboise, politics and prose

Laurie Kaplan, professor of English at Goucher College

E. Ethelbert Miller, poet; director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, chair of the Washington D.C. Humanities Council. His last book was "How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love."

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