Mike Chinoy is a non-resident senior fellow at the USC US-China Institute and the author of Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear Crisis.
Chinoy is a former senior fellow at the Pacific Council on International Policy, and a senior Asia correspondent and Beijing Bureau Chief for CNN.
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