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North Korea Human Rights

Friday, February 24, 2017 | 10:00 AM

Building on the momentum of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry Report on Human Rights in North Korea, The Korea Society has conducted a series of programs to shed light on North Korean Human Rights issue. Check out the latest programs below. North Korea Human Rights Join our membership program here! E-News sign-up Images {gallery}How I Became a North Korean{/gallery} Read More

North Korea’s Information Revolution

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 | 6:00 PM

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About the Speaker: 2016-12-13 18:00:00
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Registration Form: Studio Korea @ The Korea Society
Summit External URL: <img src="images/icons/2013/studio_korea-logo.jpg" alt="studio korea-logo" height="142" width="238" /> Be part of a live audience for special recording sessions. Delve into the day’s headlines, dialogue with special guests from policy, finance, research, academe, international organizations, and the media, and determine new trends, priorities, and approaches in and toward East Asia and the Korean Peninsula.

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 ... Read More

The Gentleman From Japan

Monday, December 12, 2016 | 12:00 PM

About the Speaker Title: The Gentleman From Japan
About the Speaker: 2016-12-12 12:00:00
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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 holiday giving, and enjoy sweet dumplings as we bid the year adieu. In this new release, Church, a former... Read More

Advising the Next US President on Korea

Monday, December 12, 2016 | 12:00 PM

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CSIS Korea Chair Victor Cha and Georgetown University Distinguished Professor Robert Gallucci release their advisory for the incoming President and next administration on how best to deal with issues and concerns on the Korean Peninsula. Read More

Changing American Perceptions of North Korea since 1948

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 | 2:00 PM

About the Speaker Title: Changing American Perceptions of North Korea since 1948
About the Speaker: 2016-10-25 14:00:00
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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 either a puppet of the Soviet Union... Read More

Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula

Monday, September 12, 2016 | 4:00 PM

About the Speaker Title: Security Challenges on the Korean Peninsula
About the Speaker: 2016-09-12 16:00:00
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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 of... Read More

Time for Intensified Dialogue on the Korean Peninsula

Friday, June 3, 2016 | 12:00 PM

About the Speaker Title: North Korea: The End of “Patience”?
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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 Thomas Hubbard On May 6, the Democratic... Read More

Engaging North Korea

Thursday, April 14, 2016 | 12:30 PM

About the Speaker Title: Engaging North Korea
About the Speaker: 2016-04-14 12:30:00
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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 ... Read More

North Korea: The End of “Patience”?

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 | 12:00 PM

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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 Security Council resolutions and underscore North Korea’s avowed... Read More

North Korean Human Rights: Two Years beyond the COI Report

Thursday, February 18, 2016 | 12:30 PM

About the Speaker Title: North Korean Human Rights: Two Years beyond the COI Report
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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 Society's Stephen Noerper. North Korean... Read More