Prime Minister Helen Clark will address the twelfth annual CNN World Report Conference by satellite early tomorrow.

The conference in Atlanta, Georgia, is being attended by more than 300 journalists and television executives.

Helen Clark will give her address, to be followed by a question-and-answer session, from the Television New Zealand studio in the Beehive. The live link begins at 1 am on Wednesday.

The topic for the session, The Nuclear Threat in the 21st Century, was nominated by CNN founder Ted Turner.

Guest speakers at recent World Report conferences have included former American presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, Korean President Kim Dae-jung, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and King Abdullah II of Jordan.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

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