With growing cyber attacks possibly linked to North Korea and an eye to the vulnerability of financial and government systems, the Korea Society hosts a private round table discussion on North Korea's Cyber Threat. The discussants for this by-invitation session are the Council on Foreign Relations' Adam Segal and Symantec's Vikram Thakur. Adam Segal is the Ira A. Lipman Chair in Emerging Technologies and National Security and Director of the… Read More

To mark the third anniversary of the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry Report, the Korea Society welcomes Seong-ho Ji, a North Korean defector and human rights activist. Ji speaks on North Korean human rights at an intimate roundtable discussion moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, senior director. North Korean Human Rights: Marking the Third Anniversary of the UN Commission of Inquiry Report with Activist Seong-ho Ji with Seong-ho… Read More

Have a jOlly hOliday with Inspector O! The Korea Society offers its members and policy program participants a special gift in celebrating the release of the final Inspector O novel, The Gentleman from Japan, at 12 noon on December 12. Join us on 12-12 at 12 for the secretive and celebrated Church reading live (and sharing some thoughts on Korea policy going forward). A signing follows, so stock up for… Read More

Jieun Baek discusses North Korea’s Hidden Revolution, her new book on the information network growing within North Korea through exposure to foreign films, television, and books. Baek argues that access to information is sparking irreversible change in the social and political consciousness of North Korean citizens. A book signing follows.     North Korea’s Information Revolution     Jieun Baek                Fellow, Belfer Center    Tickets:… Read More

This presentation will examine how portrayals of North Korea by the U.S. government and popular media diminished the possibility of diplomatic cooperation between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, North Korea) over the second half of the twentieth century.  It will specifically argue that policymakers and journalists, among other observers in U.S. society, primarily made sense of the DPRK’s often-brutal actions by describing it as… Read More

Ha Young-sun, chairman of the board of the East Asia Institute; Chun Chaesung, chair of EAI’s Asia Security Initiative Research Center; and Sohn Yul, dean and professor of the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University; address inter-Korean tensions and South Korea’s security concerns in a panel discussion moderated by senior director Stephen Noerper. Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula   Ha Young-sun            Chairman… Read More

June 3, 2016 Time for Intensified Dialogue on the Korean Peninsula Ambassador Thomas Hubbard On May 6, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea kicked off the historic Seventh Congress of the Workers’ Party of Korea, marking the first such official gathering of the regime’s senior leadership since Supreme Leader Kim Il-sung convened the Sixth Congress in 1980. English June 3, 2016 Time for Intensified Dialogue on the Korean Peninsula Ambassador… Read More

Stephan Haggard, author of Hard Target: Engaging North Korea, provides an assessment of a North Korea that is undergoing substantial economic and social change under the Kim Jong Un regime, in conversation with Korea Society president Thomas Byrne. Engaging North Korea   Stephan Haggard          Author of Hard Target: Engaging North Korea Thomas Byrne           President of The Korea Society   YPN and Explorer Level Members… Read More

February 23, 2016 North Korea: The End of “Patience”? Ambassador Thomas Hubbard North Korea’s detonation of a nuclear device on January 6 followed by a satellite launch on February 7, while widely predicted, have led to a sharp rise in tensions on the Korean Peninsula and called into question the “strategic patience” that has characterized the US approach to North Korea under the Obama administration. Both steps violate existing UN… Read More

The Korea Society marks two years since the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry Report (COI) with a message from South Korea's Ambassador on Human Rights Lee Jung-hoon and in-studio discussion with Greg Scarlatoiu. Executive Director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), Scarlatoiu speaks to current efforts within the UN, among governments and by NGOs to halt North Korea's human rights abuses, in conversation with the… Read More