Arirang News suddenly asked me to comment today on recent U.S. and NATO tensions with Russia over Ukraine. It afforded me the opportunity to comment on ill-advised U.S. and NATO policy toward Russia since the demise of the Soviet Union on Christmas Day 1991.

Again, many thanks to Mark Broome and Kim Mok-yeon for inviting me on their “New Day” program on a topic that did not directly affect Korea, yet at the end, I was able to make a point about a potentially constructive role Russia may play in the future of the peninsula. The full interview, which has received a large number of YouTube views, is below: