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10:00U.S. - North Korea Relations

Two U.S. journalists are sentenced to twelve years of hard labor by North Korea. Diane and her guests discuss implications for North Korea's relations with the U-S and other countries in the region.

Guests

Stephen Rademaker, Senior Counsel with the BGR Group. Former Assistant Secretary of State from 2002 to 2006, where he directed nonproliferation policy toward Iran and North Korea.

Robert Gallucci, Dean of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He served as former Assistant Secretary of State and was the lead negotiator in the Clinton Administration's 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea.

Scott Snyder, Director of the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy at The Asia Foundation and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Korean Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

11:00Steve Luxenberg: "Annie's Ghosts" (Hyperion)

A journalist's memoir of trying to understand why his mother never revealed she had a sister. It's a story of family secrets, deception and how the mentally ill were once treated in America.

Guests

Steve Luxenberg, an associate editor at The Washington Post

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