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Donald Kirk is a veteran correspondent and noted author on conflict and crisis from Southeast Asia to the Middle East to Northeast Asia. Don has covered wars from Vietnam to Iraq, focusing on political, diplomatic, economic and social as well as military issues. He is also known for his reporting on North Korea, including the nuclear crisis, human rights and payoffs from South to North Korea preceding the June 2000 inter-Korean summit.〔Donald Kirk (2011-04-30). (Time to wise up on North Korea ). ''The Asia Times'', retrieved August 25, 2011〕 After several years as a metro reporter for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' and the ''New York Post'', Don went to Asia as a correspondent in Indonesia in “The Year of Living Dangerously,” 1965–1966, including the fall of Sukarno and mass killings in Java and Bali. He covered Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the late 1960s and early 1970s, first for the old ''Washington (DC) Star'' and then for the ''Chicago Tribune'', reporting on the Tet Offensive, the downfall of Prince Sihanouk and the U.S. incursion into Cambodia (1970), and the Easter Offensive in Vietnam (1972).〔Donald Kirk (2010-03-23). (Donald Kirk: Vanished in a time of killing ). ''The Projo Website'', retrieved June 6, 2010〕 He also wrote articles for ''The New York Times Magazine''〔Reporting Vietnam: American Journalism 1959 - 1975 (Reporting Vietnam: Paperback Edition ). ''The Library of America'', retrieved June 6, 2010〕 and two books before gravitating to northeast Asia.〔Donald Kirk (KJ Special On-line Features: Looking Back at the Tet Offensive ). ''The Kyoto Journal'', retrieved June 6, 2010〕 Don was correspondent for The Observer (London) in Japan and Korea in the late 1970s and 1980s, covering the assassination of President Park Chung-hee of Korea in 1979, the Gwangju revolt in 1980, and financial, diplomatic and political issues in Japan for the Observer and newspapers in the U.S. and Canada. He covered the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 from Beirut and Tel Aviv, then joined USA Today in August as the paper’s first world editor. For USA Today, he ranged from Europe to Korea, reporting on war in Lebanon, revolt in El Salvador and Nicaragua, the fall of Ceausescu in Rumania, the democracy revolt in Korea in 1987, the Tiananmen Square uprising in Beijing in 1988, and the Gulf War from Baghdad, including the U.S. bombing, in 1989 and 1990.〔Susan Jeffords, Lauren Rabinovitz, “Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War,” p. 127〕 After publishing an unauthorized biography of Chung Ju-yung, founder of the Hyundai empire, Don returned to Korea as correspondent for the ''International Herald Tribune'', 1997–2003, and for the Christian Science Monitor and CBS Radio, since 2004. He has been covering the sinking of the South Korean navy ship ''Cheonan'', the North Korean nuclear issue, anti-American protests, U.S.-Korea trade disputes and Korean politics, has visited North Korea eight times and reported for CBS from Baghdad in 2004. == Currently == Don splits his time between Seoul, Washington and London, reporting from and on Korea for CBS Radio and the Christian Science Monitor, writing the “Global View” column for ''Future Korea Weekly'' and filing for the ''Asia Times''. He also writes articles and commentaries for magazines and newspapers, including ''Forbes'' and ''Institutional Investor'', of which he is a contributing editor, the ''World Tribune'', which he serves on the editorial board, the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''South China Morning Post'' (Hong Kong) and ''The Providence Journal''. He contributes expert analysis on Korea for Al Jazeera, Press TV and numerous American radio stations. He has written in recent years for the ''New Leader'', ''Far Eastern Economic Review'', the ''Korea Policy Review'' (Kennedy School, Harvard), the ''Korea Observer'' and numerous others. He has been a contributing editor of the ''Kyoto Journal'', is a contributing editor of ''Future Korea Weekly'' and on the board of advisers of ''Asia-Pacific Business & Technology Report''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donald Kirk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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