NORTH KOREA: THE LAST STALINIST STATE
North Korea has been the object of President Trump’s international desires for more than two years. He and the North Korean leader, Kim Jung Un, have met twice in elaborately staged sessions that have on the surface been devoted to the so-called “denuclearization” of the Korean peninsula.
But those up-and-down efforts have been criticized by several experts as simply extended photo opportunities, a chance for both leaders to gain world wide exposure for one of the most intractable military and geo-political situations on the planet.
CNN’s David Fitzpatrick, who has traveled to North Korea twice and earned an EMMY Award for his role in a ground breaking CBS News report on the famine in North Korea, will examine the North Korea of today and of yesterday, which are in fact striking in their similarities.
Genuine progress may in fact occur between the United States and North Korea but the odds of success are slim indeed.
Fitzpatrick will explain why in detail and discuss his two trips to a nation that’s rightly been called The Hermit Kingdom.
DAVID FITZPATRICK BIOGRAPHY
A member of DMA and a Darien resident for 35 years, David Fitzpatrick is currently a Staff Writer for CNN’s flagship prime time newscast, “Anderson Cooper 360.” Fitzpatrick has been at CNN as an anchor producer, senior executive producer and investigative producer since 2001, with the exception of a year sabbatical in 2017.
Prior to joining CNN, he spent 25 years at CBS News in a variety of editorial positions, including service as a producer in the network’s Washington, Los Angeles and London Bureaus. He has also served as the network’s Bureau Chief in Chicago and later, National Editor. He joined the CBS Evening News as a producer in the late 1980s and subsequently joined “60 Minutes” as a producer attached to the late Morley Safer. He also was a producer for two other CBS News newsmagazines, “Eye to Eye With Connie Chung” and “Public Eye With Bryant Gumbel.” Upon leaving CBS News in 1998, he joined the staff of the ABC News prime time newsmagazine “20/20.”
During his career, he has worked for CBS News, ABC News and CNN on assignment across the world, including time in Iran during the hostage crisis, in Poland during the Solidarity uprising, throughout the Middle East, Africa, Central and South America. He’s also been assigned to work in New Orleans during the Katrina disaster, in Indonesia for the devastating tsunamis of 2004/05 and in Malaysia for the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
He and his wife Adria Bates have three adult children, now scattered throughout the United States.
Arranged by Alex Garnett
Vide of his resentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdC_QNtcEsA&feature=youtu.be