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Dialogue with a North Korean Defector

Media

Podcast

 

Join an intimate conversation with defector Seongmin Lee, who escaped North Korea in 2009. Hailing from the border town of Hyesan, Lee witnessed the tumultuous social and economic change in the wake of the 1990s famine. Lee converses with associate policy director Jonathan Corrado in this event marking the fourth anniversary of the release of the UN Commission of Inquiry Report on North Korea human rights.

 

Dialogue with a North Korean Defector

featuring Seongmin Lee

Thursday, February 22, 2018 | 6 PM