Victor Cha

professor at Georgetown University, president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department, and Korea chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

Guest

Director of Asian studies at Georgetown University and senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; former Director of Asian affairs at the National Security Council (2004-2007); author of The Impossible State: North Korea's Past and Future and co-author of Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Strategies of Engagement

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Analysts are poring over video of today's funeral of Kim Jong Il, looking for clues to who will hold power in North Korea.

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