Debbie Georgatos is guest hosting today ! She will be talking to Fred Fleitz about the nuclear threat from North Korea and what we can do about it.
Dr. Buddy Matthews will join her in the final hour to discuss the truth about the trade deficit and tarriffs.
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Fleitz is the author of four books. He has appeared on many U.S. and international TV and radio programs and his op-eds articles have appeared in many different publications.
Fred’s work for the Center has focused on terrorism, radical Islam, the Middle East, the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs, and intelligence reform. Fred has been a leading voice in print and media interviews against the nuclear deal with Iran and helped expose secret side deals between Iran and the IAEA that allowed Iran to inspect itself for evidence of its past nuclear weapons-related activities.
Fred has extensive national security experience with the executive and legislative branches of government. He served for 19 years as a CIA analyst focusing on a wide variety of issues, including WMD proliferation. Fred served for four years as Chief of Staff to John Bolton when he was Under Secretary of State for Arms Control. In this job, Fred was a U.S. delegate to several major international arms control conferences, including the International Atomic Energy Board of Governors, the UN General Assembly First Committee and the Biological Weapons Convention Review Conference. In his five years with the House Intelligence Committee staff, Fred was a senior aide to Chairman Peter Hoekstra and the committee’s expert on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs.
Fleitz gets to the heart of why these programs reached their current dangerous levels by comparing the inept “Strategic Patience” North Korea policy of the Obama administration with the more aggressive policy of President Donald Trump.
He also provides and in depth analysis of North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, including current and projected capabilities of its nuclear weapons and ICBMs.
Fleitz looks at the difficult decisions facing President Trump to deal with the North Korean Crisis left to him by President Obama and how Mr. Trump’s North Korea policy initiatives appear to be succeeding.
A must-read for anyone looking for a comprehensive and understandable assessment of the threat North Korea poses to the United States and the world.
Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and, in 2009, Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).
He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.
Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas.