The World Next Week: Arab League Meets and Obama Visits Korea
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By James M. LindsayMary and David Boies Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the Arab League summit in Baghdad; President Obama’s visit to the Denuclearized Military Zone (DMZ) on the Korean Peninsula as part of his visit to the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul; the presidential election run-off in Senegal; and the Pope’s trip to Cuba.
The highlights:
Voice of America notes that the Arab League summit will be a test for the war-torn city of Baghdad, and the Los Angeles Times reports on the attacks that led to forty-six deaths just a week before the summit. In South Korea, Obama is likely to talk up U.S.-Korean economic and military ties—the visit falls almost exactly two years after the sinking of a South Korean warship, the Cheonan. The Wall Street Journal previews what Obama might say on North Korea and Iran while in Seoul, and Bloomberg outlines how campaign politics are shaping his agenda in South Korea. The BBC profiles Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade, and Azad Essa believes the presidential election proves Senegal is a functioning democracy. CFR’s Julia E. Sweig recounts the “frozen U.S.-Cuba relationship,” and Reuters details the Vatican’s condemnation of the U.S. embargo on Cuba.