Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/korean-americans-fear-ramifications-of-nuclear-test Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Korean Americans are watching closely news of North Korea's nuclear program and wondering what effect its drive toward a nuclear armed state will have on family, on U.S. policy toward the peninsula and on the possibility of a reunified North and South Korea. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: Now, reaction of Korean-Americans to the North Korea nuclear crisis. NewsHour correspondent Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Broadcasting has that story. LEE HOCHBERG, NewsHour Correspondent: Seattle is home to 50,000 Korean-Americans. And on Sundays, many gather to worship at churches like this one.The nuclear showdown on the Korean Peninsula has made this a tortured time for some of America's two million Korean-Americans, including Pastor Edward Park. EDWARD PARK, Pastor (through translator): We are setting a foundation all over the world to set a conflict that cannot be solved by any nations. LEE HOCHBERG: Many congregants at Hansarang Korean Church still have family in Korea. The pastor's four sisters and two brothers live in South Korea. He worries about their future, now that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said he conducted a nuclear test. Pastor Park says he begged his siblings last week to move away from Korea. EDWARD PARK: What's next? What's next? And we've been so naive; we've been manipulated. We've got to confront them. There's no other way.