Donald Kirk is a veteran correspondent and author on conflict and crisis from Southeast Asia to the Middle East to Northeast Asia. Kirk 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. After several years as a metro reporter for the Chicago Sun-Times and the New York Post, 1960-1964, Kirk free-lanced from Indonesia in “The Year of Living Dangerously,” 1965–1966, writing about the fall of Sukarno and mass killings in Java and Bali. He covered Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the late 1960s and early 1970s for the old Washington (DC) Star and then for the Chicago Tribune, reporting on the 1968 Tet Offensive, the 1970 downfall of Prince Sihanouk and the U.S. incursion into Cambodia and the 1972 Easter Offensive in Vietnam. He also wrote articles for The New York Times Magazine and The New Leader and two books before gravitating to northeast Asia. More information...
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