North Korea

  • Bluebird Post: Letters from North Korean Defectors to Those They Miss With North Korea Reform Radio

    Tuesday, October 30, 2018 | 3:00 PM
    North Korea Reform Radio and the Korea Society co-host a special reading of letters from North Korean defectors now residing in South Korea to those whom they miss from their hometowns in the North. The letters depict the realities of separation and human rights violations suffered by North Koreans. A question and answer session with defectors follows, moderated by Associate Director Jonathan Corrado. A limited number of books featuring a curated collection of the letters will be provided free of charge on a first... Read More

  • Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella, with Terence Roehrig

    Thursday, October 25, 2018 | 12:00 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2018-10-25_TKS_KoreaAtACrossroads_JapanSouthKoreaAndTheUnitedStatesNuclearUmbrella_TerenceRoehrig.mp3
    • Podcast URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/korea-at-crossroads-japan-south-korea-united-states/id210903888?i=1000422584858&mt=2
    • Youtube Video:
    US Naval War College Professor and Asia-Pacific Studies Group Director Terence Roehrig discusses the nuclear umbrella in Northeast Asia in the context of deterrence theory and US strategy. In conversation with the Society’s Stephen Noerper, Roehrig examines the role of the nuclear umbrella in South Korean and Japanese defense planning and security calculations, including the potential for either the ROK or Japan developing its own nuclear weapons.Professor Roehrig also addresses US and South Korea efforts at North... Read More

  • Nukes, Missiles, and Ways to Talk

    Thursday, October 11, 2018 | 4:00 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2018-10-11_NukesMissilesAndWaysToTalk.mp3
    • Podcast URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nukes-missiles-ways-to-talk-diplomats-ankit-panda/id210903888?i=1000421668715&mt=2
    • Youtube Video:
    The Diplomat’s Ankit Panda discusses North Korea nuclear weapons, intercontinental ballistic missiles, and diplomatic pathways aimed at mitigating these threats. Panda, also an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists, joins Associate Director Jonathan Corrado in this Young Asia Policy Professionals event, which is open to the public. Nukes, Missiles, and Ways to Talk Thursday, October 11, 2018 | 4 PM The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor New York, NY 10017   Join our... Read More

  • Contemporary North Korean Art

    Thursday, October 4, 2018 | 6:30 PM
    Professor BG Muhn, an art professor and the director of undergraduate studies of Art at Georgetown University and author of Pyongyang Art: Uncovering the Complex Layers of Chosonhwa, shares his experience and knowledge in the relatively new field of North Korean art gained from his frequent research trips to North Korea. He was also appointed to curate a North Korean art exhibition at the 2018 Gwangju Biennale in South Korea.The presentation will be followed by a book signing.   Contemporary North Korean Art... Read More

  • Korea at a Crossroads: Inter-Korean Relations and Next Steps in US-DPRK Dialogue

    Thursday, September 27, 2018 | 12:00 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2018-09-27_Inter-KoreanRelationsAndNextStepsInUS-DPRKDialogue.mp3
    • Podcast URL: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/korea-at-crossroads-inter-korean-relations-next-steps/id210903888?i=1000420669555&mt=2
    Asia business and policy veterans Philip Sherman and David Anderson convene an Old Asia Hands luncheon to discuss negotiations around the Korean Peninsula. This group of seasoned professionals weighs the prospects for success in current ROK-DPRK and US-DPRK negotiations, with remarks by Senior Director Stephen Noerper. By Invitation Korea at a Crossroads: Inter-Korean Relations and Next Steps in US-DPRK Dialogue Thursday, September 27, 2018 | 12 PM The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor New York,... Read More

  • South Korea's Moon Becomes Kim Jong Un's Top Spokesman at UN

    Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | 8:38 PM
    • Summit External URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-26/south-korea-s-moon-becomes-kim-jong-un-s-top-spokesman-at-un
    Senior Director Stephen Noerper says “I don’t see Moon as Kim’s spokesperson, but as a leader who needs Kim and Trump amenable to agreement.” Read More

  • Playing Frisbee in North Korea

    Tuesday, September 25, 2018 | 6:00 PM
    Director Savanna Washington offers a sneak preview of Playing Frisbee in North Korea (2018) for a Korea Society audience. She appears after in conversation with Columbia Professor Charles Armstrong and the Society’s Stephen Noerper. This colorful documentary vividly depicts the challenges of North Korea and potential warming through person-to-person contact.   + - Admission Click to collapse   The Korea Society Fellow, Patron and... Read More

  • Imagining the Impossible: The DMZ as a Productive Territory Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture 2018

    Thursday, September 20, 2018 | 3:00 PM
    • Youtube Video:
    Architect and educator Dongsei Kim--recipient of the 2018 Sherman Family Korea Emerging Scholar Lecture Series award--explores how the discipline of architecture and landscape architecture investigates the Demilitarized Zone. Through the prism of spatial design and with three concrete examples, Professor Kim argues for a reformulation of exclusionary border conditions into inclusive spaces that become synergistic and productive for both Koreas.   FREE with registration. Limited seating.    Imagining the... Read More

  • REUTERS: BREAKINGVIEWS | Seoul searching

    Tuesday, September 18, 2018 | 9:00 AM
    • Summit External URL: https://www.breakingviews.com/features/guest-view-trump-trade-war-threatens-korean-peace/
    President Donald Trump’s trade war threatens the possibility of peace in Korea, say Korea Society President Thomas Byrne and Chairman Ambassador Thomas Hubbard in a new Reuters Breaking Views article. The two write, "Capricious auto tariffs on the flimsy pretext of national security only complicates denuclearization negotiations already fraught with mistrust." Read More

  • Korea at a Crossroads: North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa

    Thursday, September 13, 2018 | 12:00 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2018-09-13_NorthKoreanMilitaryProliferationInTheMiddleEastAndAfrica.mp3
    • Podcast URL: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/korea-at-crossroads-north-korean-military-proliferation/id210903888?i=1000419690986&mt=2
    • Youtube Video:
      Professor and author Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr. discusses his new release, North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa: Enabling Violence and Instability. In dialogue with Senior Director Stephen Noerper, Bechtol speaks to the DPRK’s ongoing sales of conventional weapons, ballistic missile and WMD systems and technology, as well as collaboration, in the world’s more volatile regions.   Korea at a Crossroads: North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa Thursday, September... Read More

Page 14 of 24