Japan's Snap Election, Gaza Humanitarian Crisis, North Korean Troops in Kursk

VIDEO SERIES World Review with Ivo Daalder
Yasmeen Abutaleb, Anton La Guardia, & Ken Moriyasu join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.
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About This Episode

Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party faced a major setback in Sunday's snap elections after failing to obtain a majority of seats in the Lower House for the first time in 15 years. How will this shocking parliamentary loss affect the long-standing party, and what will it mean for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s future? Then, aid entering Gaza is at its lowest since the start of the war, exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the region. Plus, North Korea has sent about 10,000 troops to the Kursk region of Russia. As they prepare to fight against Ukraine, what does this deployment mean for geopolitics? And what does North Korea get out of joining Russia in the war? Yasmeen Abutaleb, Ken Moriyasu, and Anton La Guardia join World Review with Ivo Daalder to dive into these issues.

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About the Panelists
Yasmeen Abutaleb
White House Reporter, The Washington Post
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Yasmeen Abutaleb is a White House reporter with The Washington Post. She joined in 2019 as a national reporter covering health policy and covered the Trump and Biden administration responses to the coronavirus pandemic, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Anton La Guardia
Diplomatic Editor, The Economist
Anton La Guardia
Anton La Guardia is the diplomatic editor of The Economist, based in Washington, DC. Prior to this role, he was the digital editor, deputy foreign editor and Middle East and Africa editor
Anton La Guardia
Ken Moriyasu
Washington Correspondent, Nikkei Asia
Ken Moriyasu
Ken is the Washington correspondent for Nikkei Asia, the English-language arm of Japanese media group Nikkei. Born in Chicago, Ken has been with Nikkei for over two decades, serving as a correspondent in Tokyo, Washington DC, Cairo, Beijing, Dalian and New York. He was the last journalist to interview Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in January 2006, one day before his stroke..
Ken Moriyasu
Ivo H. Daalder
CEO, Chicago Council on Global Affairs
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Ivo H. Daalder served as the US ambassador to NATO from 2009 to 2013. He joined the Council as president in 2013 and took on the new role of CEO in 2023. Previously, he was a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and served as director for European affairs on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. He is the author or editor of 10 books.
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Issues Global Politics US Foreign Policy
Regions East Asia Middle East and North Africa Eastern Europe
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