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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 .. veteran. veteran. correspondent. correspondent. Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia. Middle East. Middle East. Northeast Asia. Northeast Asia. Don has covered wars from Vietnam to Iraq , focusing on political , diplomatic , economic and social as well as military issues .. Vietnam. Vietnam. Iraq. Iraq. diplomatic. Diplomacy. 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 .. North Korea. North Korea. nuclear crisis. nuclear crisis. 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 .. correspondent. correspondent. metro. Urban area. reporter. reporter. Chicago Sun-Times. Chicago Sun-Times. New York Post. New York Post. Indonesia. Indonesia. Sukarno. Sukarno. Java. Java. Bali. Bali. He covered Vietnam , Cambodia and Laos in the late 1960s and early 1970s , first for the old Washington -LRB- DC -RRB- Star and then for the Chicago Tribune , reporting on the Tet Offensive , the downfall of Prince Sihanouk and the U.S. incursion into Cambodia -LRB- 1970 -RRB- , and the Easter Offensive in Vietnam -LRB- 1972 -RRB- .. Vietnam. Vietnam. Cambodia. Cambodia. Laos. Laos. Chicago Tribune. Chicago Tribune. Tet Offensive. Tet Offensive. Sihanouk. Sihanouk. Easter Offensive. Easter Offensive. He also wrote articles for The New York Times Magazine and two books before gravitating to northeast Asia .. The New York Times Magazine. The New York Times Magazine. Don was correspondent for The Observer -LRB- London -RRB- 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 .. correspondent. correspondent. diplomatic. Diplomacy. The Observer. The Observer. Park Chung-hee. Park Chung-hee. Gwangju. Gwangju. 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 .. Tiananmen Square. Tiananmen Square. 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 .. correspondent. correspondent. Chung Ju-yung. Chung Ju-yung. Hyundai. Hyundai. International Herald Tribune. International Herald Tribune. 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 .. North Korea. North Korea