The findings of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in North Korea (UN COI) outline in horrendous detail the crimes against humanity being committed as a matter of DPRK state policy. To support the momentum behind the UN COI findings and recommendations, the Asan Institute for Policy Studies published a new report titled, Beyond the UN COI Report on Human Rights in the DPRK. The Asan report seeks to augment the COI findings by further examining the human-rights abuses sustained by North Korean laborers, but not included in the COI report. The report details human rights abuses suffered by North Korean overseas workers and laborers in DPRK nuclear facilities. Through independent analysis and interviews with North Korean defectors, the report concludes that these groups are subjected to slavery and forced-labor conditions that violate international law. These conditions are further symptomatic of how gross human rights violations are routinized at all levels of North Korean society. The Asan Institute authors and invited panelists will discuss the research findings and policy recommendations of this report.

Slavery and Forced Labor: Beyond the UN Report on Human Rights in North Korea

with

Shin Chang-Hoon, Research Fellow and Director, Center for Global Governance, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

Go Myong-Hyun, Research Fellow, Risk, Information & Social Policy Program, The Asan Institute for Policy Studies

Sue Mi Terry, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University

​David Hawk, Author of The Hidden Gulag

​Param-Preet Singh, Senior Counsel, International Justice Program, Human Rights Watch

William Newcomb, Visiting Scholar, U.S-Korea Institute, SAIS

Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

Monday, November 24, 2014 | 12 PM

11:30 AM  |  Registration & Light Fare  (Courtesy of The Asan Institute)

12:00 PM  |  Discussion

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Of Interest

The Washington Post: WorldViews

Torture, kidnapping, and gulags: North Korea’s alleged crimes against humanity

Harvard Belfer Center’s John Park, one of the nation’s most eminent Korea analysts, speaks to relations between Pyongyang and Beijing, with an eye to emerging fault lines and areas of continued commitment. Park explores the paradox of the DPRK’s reliance on the PRC for fuel and foodstuff and quest for strategic diversity and self-reliance. He weighs signals by Xi Jinping and potential new balancing following the year’s first ever visit by a Chinese President to Seoul over Pyongyang.

Rifts and Bonds:
Assessing North Korea-China Relations

The Analysts

with

John Park, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School and Research Associate at MIT

Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

Friday, November 21, 2014 | 12 PM

11:30 AM  |  Registration & Light Fare

12:00 PM  |  Discussion

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Former UN Panel of Experts member William Newcomb explains sanctions on North Korea, the current momentum for and against sanctions in the UN system and U.S. government, and effectiveness or lack thereof. Newcomb recalls the Banco Delta Asia process impeding financial transactions, reflects on the Panama interdictions, and speaks to the realities of China’s repeated blocks in more recent sanction efforts.

Sanctions Fact and Sanctions Fiction

The Analysts

with

William Newcomb, former member of the UN Panel of Experts on DPRK Sanctions

Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

Friday, November 14, 2014 | 12 PM

11:30 AM  |  Registration & Light Fare

12:00 PM  |  Discussion

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Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy’s Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor Sung-Yoon Lee addresses developments in the half-year since the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry’s historic report on human rights abuses in North Korea. Lee, who has appeared frequently in the The New York Times and on PBS, argues for an uptick in ROK and international commitment to counter rights abuses and explores the issue of accountability for Korean unification.

Rights and Wrongs

The Analysts

with

Sung-Yoon Lee, Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School

Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

Friday, November 7, 2014 | 12 PM

11:30 AM  |  Registration & Light Fare

12:00 PM  |  Discussion

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Of Interest:

20th Annual Timothy A. Gelatt
Dialogue on the Rule of Law in East Asia

International Human Rights: North Korea, China and the UN

ADVANCE UNEDITED VERSION

Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s

Columbia University Senior Research Scholar Sue Mi Terry speaks about her recent Foreign Affairs article A Korea Whole and Free, which advocates a push toward Korean unification. Terry weighs reactions to the piece in Seoul, Pyongyang, and Washington and whether we are approaching an endgame on the Korean Peninsula.

Moving to a North Korea Endgame?

The Analysts

with

Sue Mi Terry, Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University

Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

Friday, October 31, 2014 | 12 PM

11:30 AM  |  Registration & Light Fare

12:00 PM  |  Discussion

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Of Interest:

A Reunified Theory

Should We Welcome the Collapse of North Korea?

Washington-based expert Patrick Cronin discusses Northeast Asia and the political process as Washington gears up for midterm elections. He also explores policy priorities as the 2016 presidential prospects begin to weigh foreign policy. Cronin, a prolific speaker and frequent major media contributor, heads Asia security efforts at the Center for a New American Security.

Asia, the Midterm Elections and Momentum to 2016

The Analysts

with

Patrick Cronin, Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

Friday, October 24, 2014 | 12 PM

11:30 AM  |  Registration & Light Fare

12:00 PM  |  Discussion

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Washington-based expert Patrick Cronin discusses Northeast Asia and the political process as Washington gears up for midterm elections. He also explores policy priorities as the 2016 presidential prospects begin to weigh foreign policy. Cronin, a prolific speaker and frequent major media contributor, heads Asia security efforts at the Center for a New American Security.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRyk8deqpig

Rapid Reaction on Wartime OPCON

with

Patrick Cronin, Senior Advisor and Senior Director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)

Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

Friday, October 24, 2014 | 12 PM

Famed economist and demographer Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, discusses his decades of ground-breaking research into North Korea. Eberstadt, also a senior advisor to the National Bureau of Asian Research, unveils his most recent findings on North Korea’s trade and China’s role, in conversation with Dr. Stephen Noerper.

Uncovering North Korea

The Analysts

with

Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy, American Enterprise Institute

Moderated by Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President, The Korea Society

Friday, September 26, 2014 | 12 PM

11:30 AM  |  Registration & Light Fare

12:15 PM  |  Discussion

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