THE QUESTION

Should the U.S. carry out a strike against the North Korean missile? What would be the consequences of such a strike?

Posted by David Ignatius on June 23, 2006 12:58 PM

FROM THE PANEL

Dr. Ali Ettefagh serves as a director of Highmore Global Corporation, an investment company in emerging markets of Eastern Europe, CIS, and the Middle East. He is the co-author of several books on trade conflict, resolution of international trade disputes, conflicts in letters of credit, trade-related banking transactions, sovereign debt, arbitration and dispute resolutions and publications specific to the oil and gas, communication, aviation and finance sectors. Dr. Ettefagh is a member of the executive committee and the board of directors of The Development Foundation, an advisor to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, and an advisor to a number of European companies. Dr. Ettefagh speaks Persian (Farsi), English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Turkish.

Bomb 'Em With Potatoes

Tehran -- Here we go again! Another round of advisors giving free "strike 'em now" publicity to arms producers and defense contractors. More war, less thought! Another raw recipe for disaster!...

Posted by Ali Ettefagh Tehran, Iran | 7 COMMENTS
Jun 25, 2006 at 11:00 AM
Mubashar Jawed Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He's the founder and editor-in-chief of The Asian Age, a daily multi-edition Indian newspaper with a global perspective and editor-in-chief of The Deccan Chronicle, a news daily based in Hyderabad. He has written books including Blood Brothers, Nehru: The Making of India, Kashmir: Behind the Vale, Riot After Riot, The Shade of Swords, and India: The Siege Within.

Some Questions Before Bombing

New Delhi, India -- The answer, regrettably, lies only in more questions -- though the ones I pose have the merit of eschewing morals, ethics and marginal notions like sovereign rights, which became the first casualty of George Bush's one-frontier...

Posted by M.J. Akbar India | 4 COMMENTS
Jun 25, 2006 at 9:41 AM
Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist based in Lahore, was the Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, for 22 years until the magazine was recently closed down. He presently writes for the Daily Telegraph in London, the International Herald Tribune, the New York Review of Books, BBC Online, The Nation, and academic and foreign affairs journals. He appears regularly on international TV and radio stations such as CNN and BBC World Service.

USA: Don't Incite Resentment

Lahore, Pakistan -- The U.S. would endanger global stability and the security of many countries in Asia if it went ahead and conducted a unilateral missile strike against North Korea....

Posted by Ahmed Rashid Lahore, Pakistan | 2 COMMENTS
Jun 24, 2006 at 7:54 AM
Mikio Ikuma is the Deputy International Editor of Yomiuiri Shimbun in Japan.

Strike: Chastise That Naughty Boy!

Tokyo, Japan -- North Korea has been toying with dangerous weapons for so long, wrongly hoping that it can intimidate neighboring grown-ups. It is time to teach the ill-bred child that bad behaviors are not tolerated in the real world....

Posted by Mikio Ikuma Japan | 53 COMMENTS
Jun 23, 2006 at 1:00 PM
Masha Lipman is the editor of the Pro et Contra journal, published by Carnegie Moscow Center. Lipman is also an expert in the Civil Society Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center. She served as deputy editor of the Russian weekly newsmagazines, Ezhenedel’ny zhurnal from 2001 to 2003, and of Itogi magazine from 1995 to 2001. She has worked as a translator, researcher, and contributor forMoscow bureau of The Washington Post and has had a monthly op-ed column in The Washington Post since 2001.

Now is Not the Time

Moscow, Russia -- The suggestion to carry out a strike against North Korea sounds logical, rational and likely even reasonable - but that would have been before the war in Iraq...Or rather, instead of it....

Posted by Masha Lipman Moscow, Russia | 491 COMMENTS
Jun 23, 2006 at 12:59 PM

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