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The World Next Week: North Korea, Tunisia, and UN Day

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North Korea’s envoy Kim Kye Gwan takes part in a new round of six party talks in Beijing December 8, 2008. A top U.S. envoy predicted tough talks on North Korea’s nuclear activities on Monday as a fresh round of negotiations over a disarmament-for-aid deal began with the Bush administration readying to leave office. REUTERS/Elizabeth Dalziel/Pool (CHINA)
North Korea’s envoy Kim Kye Gwan taking part in Six-Party Talks in 2008. (Elizabeth Dalziel/courtesy Reuters)

The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I sat down to discuss talks between U.S. and North Korean officials; Tunisians going to the polls; and UN Day.

[audio: https://www.cfr.org/content/publications/media/podcast/2011/20111020_TWN…]

The highlights:

The Washington Post covers a summit that is laying the groundwork for reopening talks between the United States and North Korea, and the Christian Science Monitor reads the political tea leaves on this issue. Al Jazeera’s opinion page looks optimistically at the upcoming Tunisian election, while CNN’s “Security Clearance” takes a less positive view, focusing on the social tensions playing out in social media.  The UN website a offers a history lesson on its own founding.