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Inside North Korea
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In December 2011, Kim Jong-un took over for his father as supreme leader of North Korea. More than two years into Kim Jong-un’s reign, many North Koreans still suffer severe economic privation, as well as strict social and political controls. Though North Korea remains largely closed to the international media, North Korean citizen-journalists have managed to secretly record many aspects of daily life inside the DPRK, providing some of the only uncensored images from inside the country. Japanese journalist Ishimaru... Read More -
Park's Historic Dresden Address on Unification
Friday, March 28, 2014 | 12:00 PM- Podcast URL: <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><i>An Initiative for Peaceful Unification on the Korean Peninsula:</i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><i> </i></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><i>Dresden,Beyond Division, Toward Integration</i></span></div> <div> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"> </span><br /><span style="color: #000000;">Professor Hans Mueller-Steinhagen, former Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere, students and faculty members of the Dresden University of Technology, ladies and gentlemen.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"> It is my great pleasure to visit this esteemed German institute of higher learning. It is also a unique privilege to receive an honorary doctorate from a university where the presence of history and tradition can be felt. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">As the fastest-growing region in former East Germany, Dresden is an iconic community that has moved beyond division and toward integration. The German people have transformed Dresden into a city brimming with hope - where freedom and abundance suffuse the air. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Those who reach beyond the confines of reality and dream of a better world can draw strength and inspiration from this city. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">As I ponder on where a united Germany stands today and where the Korean Peninsula seems headed next year -- namely 70 years of division -- I find myself overwhelmed by the sheer weight of history. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">We have a saying in Korea that the impact of education lasts for generations and beyond. Looking around your campus today, I am reminded of how a nation's future is often charted and shaped from the likes of Dresden University of Technology. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">The words 'Knowledge builds bridges, education binds people' represent the educational vision of this university. And I am sure it is a vision that will be lived out through the passionate strivings of its students and faculty alike, and will help usher in a brighter future. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">As one who studied electronic engineering in college, I hold dear the belief that science and technology are the key to unlocking a nation's advancement. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">This is why I established the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning early in my presidency and have been highlighting the importance of building a creative economy. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Ours is an era when the ingenuity and innovation of a single individual can move the world. As we enter this new age, I am seeking to generate new business opportunities and jobs through creative endeavors and innovation; to breathe greater vitality and dynamism into the economy by marrying science and technology and ICT to existing industries. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">This is what a creative economy is all about. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">We will also strengthen collaboration among academia, industry and local communities -- very much like what the City of Dresden has been doing -- and provide the kind of support that enables a creative economy to spur local renewal and development. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I believe that in our efforts to make Korea's economy more creative, we will continue to find much to draw upon from the future evolution of Dresden and its colleges. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><i>Miracle on the Rhine, Miracle on the Han</i></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Ladies and gentlemen.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Korea and Germany have long been bound by special links. Fifty years ago, Korea was among the poorest nations in the world, with a per capita income of 87 dollars. Many young Koreans fresh out of college came here to Germany to earn money. They came as miners and nurses and dedicated themselves to working in the service of their homeland. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"> As much as Korea sought to lift its economy out of poverty, no country was willing to offer loans to a small nation in the northeast corner of Asia, let alone to a divided one. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">It was in those difficult and forlorn times that Germany stepped up and provided 150 million German Marks in loans, while also offering advanced technology and vocational training programs.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Germany's help would prove to be a huge boost to Korea's subsequent modernization and economic development. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Korean president who visited Germany at the time felt that Germany's rise from the ashes of the Second World War and its Miracle on the Rhine were feats that could be replicated in Korea. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">As he was driven on the autobahn and shown the steel mills of German industry, he became convinced that Korea too would need its own autobahn and its own steel industry to effect an economic take-off. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">When that president sought to build expressways and steel mills upon his return to Korea, he was met with widespread resistance.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">"What use is an expressway when we don't have cars? Building an expressway is a recipe for failure.” “What’s the point of a steel mill when we’re struggling just to get by?”- went the argument. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">But the highways that were eventually paved against such opposition became the solid bedrock on which the Korean economy would rise. Those long stretches of concrete helped remove bottlenecks in the nation’s distribution and logistical networks. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">The steel and automobile industries which had thus begun, join the ranks of the top five, six players in the world today. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">The desperate country that 50 years ago had been hard-pressed even to obtain loans, has now come of age as the 8th largest trading nation in the world and a major economic partner to Germany. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">As President of grateful nation, I thank Germany once again for placing its confidence and trust in the Republic of Korea, helping us pull through those difficult years. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><i>German unification and the dream of Korean unification</i></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Ladies and gentlemen, </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Germans and Koreans get going when the going gets tough. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">In the years following the Second World War, Germany and Korea both endured the pain of seeing their nation divided. But instead of submitting to despair, Germans and Koreans alike marched forward with hope. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">From lands ravaged by war, Germans and Koreans worked as hard as any to rebuild. They refused to let up their determination to pass on a better country to future generations. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Thus came the Miracle on the Rhine and the Miracle on the Han River some years later. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Germany would later go on to achieve unification, but Korea has yet to become whole again. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I believe that just as the Miracle on the Rhine was followed by the Miracle on the Han, so too, will unification in Germany be reenacted on the Korean Peninsula. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I remember the bold courage of the German people as unification and integration unfolded. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Even the Berlin Wall, which had seemed so insuperable, couldn’t stop the longing for freedom and peace coming from both sides of the Wall.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Years of preparation by the people of East and West Germany eventually succeeded in turning the great dream of unification into reality and, ultimately, even transformed the future of Europe. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">A reunited Germany took its place at the heart of Europe. The years since unification have seen Dresden emerge from a backwater into a world-class city known for its advanced science and technology. Other parts of the former East Germany also made huge strides forward. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">These are the images of one Germany that encourage those of us in Korea to cement our hope and our conviction that unification must also come on the Korean Peninsula. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I believe that the Republic of Korea will similarly reach ever greater heights after unification. The northern half of the Korean Peninsula will also experience rapid development. A unified Korea that is free from the fear of war and nuclear weapons will be well positioned to make larger contributions to dealing with a wide range of global issues like international peace-keeping, nuclear non-proliferation, environment and energy, and development. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Furthermore, as a new distribution hub linking the Pacific and Eurasia, it is bound to benefit the economies of East Asia and the rest of the world. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"> Ladies and gentlemen,</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">It pained me to see a recent footage of North Korean boys and girls in the foreign media. Children who lost their parents in the midst of economic distress were left neglected out in the cold, struggling from hunger. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Even as we speak, there are North Koreans who are risking their lives to cross the border in search of freedom and happiness. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">The agony inflicted by division is also captured by the plight of countless people who were separated from their families during the war and who have ever since been yearning to see their loved ones without even knowing whether they were still alive. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Just as the German people secured freedom, prosperity and peace by tearing down the Berlin Wall, we too, must tear down barriers in our march toward a new future on the Korean Peninsula.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Today, a ‘wall of military confrontation’ runs through the center of the Peninsula. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">A ‘wall of distrust’ has also been erected during the war and the ensuing decades of hostility. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Formidable still is a ‘socio-cultural wall’ that divides southerners and northeners who have long lived under vastly different ideologies and systems in terms of how they think and live. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Then there is a ‘wall of isolation’imposed by North Korea’s nuclear program, cutting North Korea off from the community of nations. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">All of these curtains must be swept away if we are to unite the Korean Peninsula. And in their place we must build a‘new kind of Korean Peninsula:’a peninsula free of nuclear weapons, free from the fear of war, and free to enjoy life, peace and prosperity. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><i>Preparing for unification</i></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Ladies and gentlemen,</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I harbor no illusions that these tremendous barriers could be torn down with ease. But the future belongs to those who believe in their dreams and act on them. To make today’s dream of peaceful unification tomorrow’s reality, we must begin meticulous preparations now. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Nor do I believe that a nation is made whole again simply by virtue of a reconnected territory or the institution of a single system. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">It is when those in the south and the north can understand each other and can get along as people of the same nation, that the Korean Peninsula can truly experience renewal as one. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">In my view, Germany was able to overcome the after-shocks of unification fairly quickly and achieve the level of integration we see today because of the sustained people-to-people interaction that took place prior to unification. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Now more than ever, South and North Korea must broaden their exchange and cooperation. What we need is not one-off or promotional events, but the kind of interaction and cooperation that enables ordinary South Koreans and North Koreans to recover a sense of common identity as they help each other out. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">And so I hereby present three proposals to North Korean authorities in the hope of laying the groundwork for peaceful unification. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">First, we must take up the agenda for humanity -- the concerns of everyday people. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">For a start, we must help ease the agony of separated families.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">It makes little sense to talk about solidarity as one nation, when members of the same family are refused their god-given right to live together. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">It has been 70 long years. Last year alone, some three thousand eight hundred people who have yearned a lifetime just to be able to hold their sons’ and daughters’ hands -- just to know whether they’re alive - passed away with their unfulfilled dreams. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I am sure the same is true of their fellow family members in North Korea. Allowing reunions should also give family members in North Korea solace. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">In order to address problems arising from family separations, East and West Germany permitted family visits in both directions and steadily promoted exchanges. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">It is about time South and North Korea allow family reunions to take place regularly so we could ease their anguish and build trust in doing so. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">We will reach out to North Korea to discuss concrete ways to achieve this and engage in necessary consultations with international bodies like the International Committee of the Red Cross. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Going forward, the Republic of Korea will expand humanitarian assistance to ordinary North Koreans. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">The Korean Government will work with the United Nations to implement a program to provide health care support for pregnant mothers and infants in North Korea through their first 1,000 days.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Furthermore, we will provide assistance for North Korean children so they could grow up to become healthy partners in our journey toward a unified future. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Second, we must pursue together an agenda for co-prosperity through the building of infrastructure that support the livelihood of people. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">South and North Korea should collaborate to set up multi-farming complexes that support agriculture, livestock and forestry in areas in the north suffering from backward production and deforestation. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Working together from sowing to harvesting will enable South and North Korea not just to share the fruits of our labor, but also our hearts. As the bonds of trust begin to burgeon between the two sides, we can start to look at larger forms of development cooperation. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">To help make life less uncomfortable for ordinary North Koreans, Korea could invest in infrastructure-building projects where possible, such as in transportation and telecommunication.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Should North Korea allow South Korea to develop its natural resources, the benefits would accrue to both halves of the peninsula. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">This would organically combine South Korean capital and technology with North Korean resources and labor and redound to the eventual formation of an economic community on the Korean Peninsula. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">In tandem with trilateral projects among the two Koreas and Russia, including the Rajin-Khasan joint project currently in the works, we will push forward collaborative projects involving both Koreas and China centered on the North Korean city of Shinuiju, among others. hese will help promote shared development on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">The international community also needs to take greater interest in getting involved if development projects in North Korea are to proceed more efficiently. </span><br /><span style="color: #000000;">I call on those NGOs from Germany and Europe which have extensive experience working with North Korea on agricultural projects and forestry to join us. I also hereby ask international organizations like the United Nations and the World Bank for their support and cooperation. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Third, we must advance an agenda for integration between the people of South and North Korea. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">As the state of division persists year after year, the language, culture and living habits of the two sides continue to diverge. If there is to be real connection and integration between the south and the north, we must narrow the distance between our values and our thinking. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">To achieve this, those from the south and the north must be afforded the chance to interact routinely. We will encourage exchanges in historical research and preservation, culture and the arts, and sports -- all of which could promote genuine people-to-people contact - rather than seek politically-motivated projects or promotional events. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Should North Korea so desire, we would be happy to partner with the international community to share our experience in economic management and developing special economic zones, and to provide systematic education and training opportunities relating to finance, tax administration and statistics. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">We could also look at jointly developing educational programs to teach future generations and cultivate talent, for it is in them that the long-term engines to propel a unified Korean Peninsula forward will be found. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I hereby propose to North Korea that we jointly establish an ‘inter-Korean exchange and cooperation office’ that would be tasked to realize these ideas. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"> Ladies and gentlemen, </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">The armistice line bisecting the peninsula and the demilitarized zone, which is in fact the most militarized stretch of real estate on the planet, best epitomize the reality of our division today.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">My hope is to see South and North Korea, together with the United nations, moving to build an international peace park inside the DMZ. By clearing barbed-wire fences and mines from parcels of the DMZ, we can start to create a zone of life and peace. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">This international peace park will presage the replacement of tension with peace on the DMZ, division with unification, and conflict in Northeast Asia with harmony. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">If South and North Korea could shift the adversarial paradigm that exists today, build a railway that runs through the DMZ and connect Asia and Europe, we will see the makings of a genuine 21st century silk road across Eurasia and be able to prosper together. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">North Korea must choose the path to denuclearization so we could embark without delay on the work that needs to be done for a unified Korean Peninsula. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I hope North Korea abandons its nuclear aspirations and returns to the Six Party Talks with a sincere willingness to resolve the nuclear issue so it could look after its own people. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Should North Korea make the strategic decision to forgo its nuclear program, South Korea would correspondingly be the first to offer its active support, including for its much needed membership in international financial institutions and attracting international investments. If deemed necessary, we can seek to create a Northeast Asia Development Bank with regional neighbors to spur economic development in North Korea and in surrounding areas. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"> </span><br /><span style="color: #000000;">We could also build on the Northeast Asia Peace and Cooperation Initiative to address North Korea’s security concerns through a multilateral peace and security system in Northeast Asia. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Here lies the road to shared prosperity between South and North Korea and here lies the path to peace and prosperity in Northeast Asia. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Korea will aspire to a unification that promotes harmony with its neighbors, that is embraced by the community of nations, and that serves the cause of the international community.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">With a view to ushering in an era peaceful unification on the Korean Peninsula, I will soon be launching a committee to prepare for unification -- one that reports directly to me as president. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">People from inside and outside the government will come together through this committee to muster our collective wisdom as we more fully prepare for the process of unification and integration. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Unification as the march of history toward justice and peace</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Citizens and students of Dresden, </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Human history has been an incessant march towards justice and towards peace. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Just as Germany turned the great wheels of history forward from the western end of Eurasia, a new chapter in mankind’s progress will start from its eastern tip, namely the Korean Peninsula. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Just as German unification represented the inexorable tide of history, I believe that Korean unification is a matter of historical inevitability. For nothing can repress the human yearning for dignity, freedom and prosperity. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Today I stand behind this podium and observe the faces of young German students bound together by an impassioned quest for truth.</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">And as I do so, I am also picturing the day when young students from both halves of a unified Korean Peninsula are studying side by side and nurturing their dreams together. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Mark my words -- that day will come. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">And when that day arrives, young people from Germany, from the whole of Korea and from all over the world, will exchange their vision of a better world as they travel back and forth between Asia and Europe through a Eurasian railway. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">I ask our friends here in Germany to join us on this journey to peaceful unification. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">‘Wir sind ein Volk!’ The day will soon come when these powerful words that united the people of East and West Germany echoes across the Korean Peninsula. </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">In closing, may a prosperous future await our true friends here in Germany and here at the Dresden University of Technology. Thank you.</span></p> </div>
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On March 28, 2014, Korean President Park Geun-hye delivered a historic address on Korean unification at the Dresden University of Technology in Dresden, Germany. Friday, March 28, 2014 Park's Historic Dresden Address on Unification Read More -
UN Commission of Inquiry Report on North Korea
Thursday, March 27, 2014 | 12:00 PM- About the Speaker Title: UN Commission of Inquiry Report on North Korea
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- Event Link: <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank Jannuzi</span> is the Deputy Executive Director of Advocacy, Policy and Research and Head of Washington, DC office. Frank Jannuzi has executive responsibility for the four organizational units in Amnesty International USA's Advocacy, Policy and Research Department. He also serves as Head of the Washington, DC office and is the focal point-person for decision-making on how we engage in policy discussions in Washington and how we respond to developments that are influenced by U.S. foreign policy.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-54b79bbb-46e3-f1d9-5e32-89c3fa0c047c" style="color: #000000;"><br />Prior to AIUSA, Frank served as Policy Director for East Asian and Pacific Affairs for the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, advising Senator John Kerry on policy options, drafting legislation authorizing U.S. diplomatic operations, security assistance, and foreign aid, and representing Senator Kerry in discussions with the American public as well as with foreign government officials and the media. His Senate service has included work on human rights legislation as well as field investigations into human rights conditions in numerous East Asian hotspots. Frank has worked as the East Asia regional political-military analyst for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and was the founding editor-in-chief of the State Department's journal on multilateral peacekeeping and humanitarian operations. Frank holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Yale University and Master's degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"> </span></p>
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Amnesty International’s Frank Jannuzi discusses the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) report of North Korean human rights violations. The report follows an extensive year-long review, including testimony by victims of the regime. Frank Jannuzi, Deputy Executive Director of Advocacy, Policy and Research and Head of Washington, DC Office of Amnesty International In conversation with Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President of The Korea... Read More -
The Choco Pie-ization of North Korea
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 | 12:00 PM- About the Speaker Title: The Choco Pie-ization of North Korea
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Join dynamic contemporary artist Jin Joo Chae in this Studio Korea session. Jin Joo Chae employs printmaking and mixed media and is concerned with American coverage of the tense dynamics between North and South Korea. Using fragile and fragrant media--newspaper and screen-printed chocolate--she manipulates dominant political narratives to suggest more complex and physically embodied realities. Playful modes and materials are subverted to suggest a helplessness and desire for transformation. The Choco... Read More -
China-Korea-U.S Relations A Robert Scalpino Memorial Dialogue
Friday, December 13, 2013 | 9:00 AMKorea’s President and her advisors speak of hope for enhanced trilateral relations among Korea, the United States and China. 2013’s historic summits between Obama and Park, Obama and Xi, and Park and Xi revealed a growing complementarity of positions vis-a-vis North Korea and common calls for denuclearization. How does Korea navigate space among its great ally and great neighbor, balancing political-security and economic realities? How do domestic political determinants influence foreign policy in this area for... Read More -
Ouster in North Korea Leaves World Watching
Wednesday, December 11, 2013 | 11:00 AM- Custom HTML field content: About the Speaker
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On December 11th, 2013, Ambassador Thomas Hubbard, chairman of the Korea Society, appeared on Public Radio International's The Takeaway. He discussed the significance of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un ousting his uncle and mentor Jang Song-thaek from office with host John Hockenberry. http://www.thetakeaway.org/story/ouster-north-korea-leaves-world-watching/ Read More -
The Two Koreas Release with Robert Carlin
Tuesday, December 10, 2013 | 5:30 PM- About the Speaker Title: The Two Koreas Release with Robert Carlin
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- Event Link: <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Robert Carlin</strong> is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and co-chair of the National Committee for North Korea. From 2002-2006 he was political advisor to the Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), a multinational consortium formed to carry out several key provisions of the 1994 US-DPRK Agreed Framework. He led numerous KEDO negotiating teams to the DPRK, and was on the last KEDO ship to leave the North in January 2006, carrying the final contingent of KEDO employees and contractors back to South Korea.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">From 1989-2002, Carlin was chief of the Northeast Asia Division of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. From 1993-2002, he served concurrently as senior advisor to the chief US negotiator to US-DPRK talks, and attended all of the major negotiations with the North Koreans during that period. From 1971-1988, he was an analyst with the CIA. Carlin has visited North Korea over 30 times. His last visit was in November 2010 as part of a small group from Stanford that was taken to see the North’s uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a1dcc64-ebd4-533c-aea0-f5703a864e69"></span><br /></strong></span></p>
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Korea uber-analyst and author Bob Carlin discusses on the day of its re-release what many consider the foremost book on modern Korea, Don Oberdorfer’s The Two Koreas. Carlin wrote the updated forward, bringing this arresting publication, loved by university students, business leaders and public alike, to a new generation of readers. Carlin discusses the changes on the Korean Peninsula since the publication’s initial release, the publication’s continued relevance, and his labor of love saluting Van Fleet awardee... Read More -
The Korean Peninsula and Strategic Risk with Bruce Klingner
Thursday, November 14, 2013 | 5:30 PM- About the Speaker Title: The Korean Peninsula and Strategic Risk
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- Event Link: <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;"><strong>Bruce Klingner</strong> is the senior research fellow for Northeast Asia in The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center. Klingner’s analysis and writing about North Korea, South Korea, Japan and related issues are informed by his 20 years working at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. From 1996 to 2001, Klingner was CIA’s deputy division chief for Korea, responsible for the analysis of political, military, economic and leadership issues for the president of the United States and other senior U.S. policymakers. In 1993-1994, he was the chief of CIA's Korea branch, which analyzed military developments during a nuclear crisis with North Korea.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Klingner, who joined Heritage in 2007, has testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">He is a frequent commentator in U.S. and foreign media, including television news programs for ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Bloomberg and C-Span. His articles and commentary have appeared in major American publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek and Fortune, as well as in overseas outlets such as The Financial Times, Chosun Ilbo, Joongang Ilbo, Kyodo News and Nikkei Weekly.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Klingner is a distinguished graduate of the National War College, where he received a master's degree in national security strategy in 2002. He also holds a master's degree in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College and a bachelor's degree in political science from Middlebury College in Vermont.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a1dcc64-db56-ae70-0873-41fe75dc61a3" style="color: #000000;">He is active in Korean martial arts, attaining third-degree black belt in taekwondo and first-degree black belt in hapkido and teuk kong moo sool.</span></p>
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Heritage Senior Research Fellow in Northeast Asia and blog-force Bruce Klingner opines on recent challenges on the Korean Peninsula and implications for those assessing strategic risk on the Peninsula and in Northeast Asia. Klingner is a former intelligence official, Intellibridge executive and Eurasia Group analyst, and is a frequent voice on Capitol Hill and in the media. Klingner offers a Studio Korea audience insight into how to analyze North Korea, identify tripwires, and weigh Chinese and other changes on... Read More -
The Korean Peninsula and Strategic Risk
Friday, September 20, 2013 | 10:00 AM- About the Speaker Title: The Korean Peninsula and Strategic Risk
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- Event Link: <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-mark="1"><strong>Chung Min Lee</strong> is the current Korean Ambassador for International Secuirty. Previously, he was the Dean and Professor of International Relations, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University. Dr. Lee concurrently served as a member of the President’s Foreign Policy Advisory Council and the Presidential Committee on Future & Vision. He was also an advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office, the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Unification, the Foreign Policy and Unification Committee of the National Assembly and other government agencies. </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;" data-mce-mark="1">Dr. Lee was a visiting professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore (2005–2007), the Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo (2004–2005), a policy analyst at the RAND Corporation (1995–1998), and a visiting research fellow at the National Institute for Defense Studies, Tokyo (1994–1995). Dr. Lee also served as a research fellow at the Sejong Institute, Seoul (1989–1994) and the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1985–1988). </span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Dr. Lee received his MALD and his PhD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University in 1988 and his BA in political science from Yonsei University in 1982. For over twenty years, Dr. Lee has written extensively on various aspects of East Asian security including strategic developments on the Korean peninsula. His research covers international and Asian security and defense planning, WMD proliferation, crisis management, and intelligence. Dr. Lee has lived in ten countries and is a citizen of the Republic of Korea.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #000000;">Dr. Lee is a member of the IISS (London) and a member of the board of the Seoul Forum for International Affairs (SFIA).</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></p> <p dir="ltr"><span style="color: #800000;">[Of interest: <a href="http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2013/06/02/Shangri-La-missile-defence.aspx"></a><a href="http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2013/06/02/Shangri-La-missile-defence.aspx"><span style="color: #800000;">http://www.lowyinterpreter.org/post/2013/06/02/Shangri-La-missile-defence.aspx</span></a></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #800000;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a1dcc64-a208-e1c2-178b-ace15898ae00"><br /><a href="http://csis.org/publication/pacnet-24-real-lessons-north-koreas-ongoing-threats"></a><a href="http://csis.org/publication/pacnet-24-real-lessons-north-koreas-ongoing-threats"><span style="color: #800000;">http://csis.org/publication/pacnet-24-real-lessons-north-koreas-ongoing-threats</span></a></span>]</span></p>
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Korea’s Ambassador for International Security, the Honorable Chung Min Lee, addresses changes on the Korean Peninsula, recent challenges from North Korea, attendant market impacts, and the evolving investment climate for U.S. and international business. This special Studio Korea session lends insight into immediate security concerns, as well as mid and long-term opportunities and challenges. Lee served as a senior campaign advisor to now-President Park Geun-hye and was a Dean and professor at Yonsei... Read More -
Journey to North and South Korea
Thursday, July 18, 2013 | 6:30 PM- About the Speaker Title: Journey to North and South Korea
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- Event Link: <p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Mark Edward Harris</strong> has traveled and photographed in more than 80 countries. He is the author of several books, including <span style="font-style: italic;">Inside Iran</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Inside North Korea</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Mark Edward Harris: Wanderlust , Faces of the Twentieth Century - Master Photographers & Their Work, </span>and his photographs have appeared in <span style="font-style: italic;">Life, GEO, Stern, Playboy, American Photo, B&W, Condé Nast Traveler</span>, the <span style="font-style: italic;">New York Times</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Times of London, Los Angeles Times Magazin</span>e, and numerous other publications.<a href="http://www.markedwardharris.com/"> </a><a href="http://www.markedwardharris.com">www.MarkEdwardHarris.com</a></p>
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In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris has published North Korea and South Korea, books that capture the two drastically different realities of the divided peninsula. Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:00 PM | Registration and Refreshments6:30 PM | Gallery Talk and Q & A Journey to North and South Korea with Mark Edward HarrisPhotographer Read More
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