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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

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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

Intl Reaction to North Korea's Missile Launch

Sunday, February 7, 2016 | 12:00 PM

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February 7, 2016 Intl Reaction to North Korea's Missile Launch Stephen E. Noerper A month and a day after conducting its fourth nuclear test, North Korea launched a multi-stage rocket carrying a 440-pound satellite. The launch of the Taepodong missile from the Tongchang-ri site, near the North’s border with China, on a clear winter Sunday morning on 7 February was another defiant and provocative action, closely following the North’s four nuclear weapons test. The United Nations Secretary General,... Read More

Invisible Children: The Stateless Children of North Korean Refugees

Thursday, February 4, 2016 | 12:00 PM

About the Speaker Title: North Korean Human Rights Revisited: Perspective of a Former North Korean Elite
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Sylvia Kim, a human rights lawyer and policy advisor with the European Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea, offers an overview of the international legal framework aimed at protecting stateless persons and explains the plight of the stateless children born to North Korean refugees in China. Invisible Children:The Stateless Children of North Korean Refugees Sylvia Kim Policy Advisor, European Alliance for Human Rights In Conversation With... Read More

The Invitation-Only Zone with Robert Boynton

Tuesday, January 12, 2016 | 6:00 PM

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Robert Boynton, Director at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, discusses his new book, The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project, a thoroughly researched investigative report of the systematic abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents. Invitation-only zones were guarded communities for Japanese abducted by North Korean spies from the late 1970s to early 80s. Boynton’s book is a balance of the harrowing personal stories of Japanese... Read More

North Korea Nuclear Test

Wednesday, January 6, 2016 | 12:00 PM

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January 6, 2016 North Korea Nuclear TestStephen E. Noerper On January 6, the DPRK tested what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb and a 5.1 seismic event was detected along the northeast coast, some thirty miles from the site of previous nuclear tests. Earlier, on December 10, Kim Jong Un bragged of North Korea having “a self-reliant A-bomb and H-bomb,” and in his New Year address railed against “invasive outsiders and provocateurs” and promised a “holy war of justice” and new “diversified attack means.”... Read More

North Korea and Information Access

Thursday, October 29, 2015 | 6:00 PM

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About the Speaker: 2015-10-29 18:00:00
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Kang Cheol Hwan, author of Aquariums of Pyongyang and Sejun Park former DPRK refugee working for the North Korea Strategy Center, a Seoul-based NGO, spoke to the topic of information access for North Koreans and current efforts to share information with the DPRK citizenry on human rights and democracy. North Korea and Information Access with Kang Cheol Hwan NKSC President and Author of 'Aquariums of Pyongyang' Sejun Park CEO of North Korea Strategy Center [U.S.... Read More

Press Release: South Korea’s Agreement with North Korea Eases Tensions

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 | 12:00 AM

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NEW YORK, August 25, 2015 – On 24 August the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) reached an agreement after three days of high-level negotiations to defuse tensions after Thursday’s rocket and artillery volley, which followed on August 4 landmine explosions south of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The North expressed “regret” over the two South Korean soldiers maimed by the explosions, and South Korea agreed to silence its loudspeakers along the DMZ. The ratcheting of... Read More

Knowing North Korea

Thursday, May 14, 2015 | 6:00 PM

Knowing North Korea is a multi-part, multi-year series, showcasing social science research and scholarly findings to better understand the complexities surrounding North Korea. The Korea Society has hosted analysts, academics, journalists, aid workers, and refugees discussing North Korea. Read More

Opening Pyongyang

Thursday, May 14, 2015 | 6:00 PM

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In 2011, Jean Lee became the first American reporter granted permission to work as a journalist in North Korea, and a year later opened AP's Pyongyang bureau, making the news agency the first and only U.S. news outlet with an office in the North Korean capital. Lee, who now serves as a Public Policy Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, D.C., shares photos and videos of homes, factories, schools and farms typically off-limits to foreigners, and offers her personal insights on daily life in North Korea. The... Read More