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Iran s mudslinging presidential campaign has made visible the divisions in Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad s chief rival, pro-reform Mir Hossein Mousavi, enjoys support from young people and women. Ahmadinejad s older, more conservative, backers applaud his firebrand style. » E-Mail This » more
Tue Jun 09 09:16am EDT
Victor Cha is a professor at Georgetown University and Korea Chair for the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He talks with Steve Inskeep about what North Korea s leader hopes to gain from holding two American journalists and conducting nuclear tests. » E-Mail This » Add to Del.ic more
Tue Jun 09 05:32am EDT
The families of two American journalists sentenced to 12 years in a North Korea labor camp have appealed for leniency. The journalists plight and North Korea s recent nuclear and missile tests have alarmed foreign governments. But South Korea — the country that potentially has the most to los more
Tue Jun 09 05:30am EDT