Rights and Wrongs

Details: Friday, November 07 , 2014 | 12:00 PM

About the Speaker Title: Rights and Wrongs
About the Speaker: 2014-11-07 12:00:00
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Event Link:   Sung-Yoon Lee, Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor at The Fletcher School, teaches courses on Korea and U.S.-East Asia relations. He is a Research Fellow with the National Asia Research Program, a joint initiative by the National Bureau of Asia Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Associate in Research at the Korea Institute, Harvard University. In 2005 he launched at Harvard's Korea Institute a new seminar series, the Kim Koo Forum on U.S.-Korea Relations. He has taught courses on Korean political history at Bowdoin College (2000), Sogang University (2007), and Seoul National University (2012). Recent publications include The Pyongyang Playbook (Foreign Affairs), Engaging North Korea: The Clouded Legacy of South Korea’s Sunshine Policy (AEI Asian Outlook), Life After Kim: Preparing for a Post-Kim Jong Il Korea (Foreign Policy) and Dependence and Defiance: Historical Dilemmas in U.S.-Korea Relations (Korea Policy Review, Harvard Kennedy School). His essays have been published in the LA Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Asia Times, The Weekly Standard, Christian Science Monitor, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Imprimus. A frequent commentator on Korean affairs, Lee has appeared on BBC, NPR, PBS, PRI, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBC, NECN, Al Jazeera, etc.     Of interest <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/opinion/south-koreas-new-president-must-challenge-the-north-on-human-rights.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/opinion/south-koreas-new-president-must-challenge-the-north-on-human-rights.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1</a>
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2014 11 07 rights-wrong icon 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.