North Korea
North Korea Launch: Rapid Reaction from The Korea Society
Thursday, December 13, 2012 | 5:00 PM
An Overview Consequences and Diplomacy? Capabilities, Legitimacy and Electoral Impact? Why Now and To What End? U.S. Responses and China’s Role? A Financial Sector Minute Diplomatic Shortcomings and Ways Forward? North Korea's Launch: The Day After The Korea Society's Rapid Reaction Podcast Recording - The Korea Society presents perspectives on North Korea's December 11, 2012 launch with The Korea Society Chairman, former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic…
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Perilous Passages: North Korea, Human Trafficking and the Underground Railroad
Thursday, February 7, 2013 | 5:30 PM
North Koreans escaping regime repression employ escape channels similar to those used by Harriet Tubman to help American slaves, says author Melanie Kirkpatrick. Explore the network of ethnic Koreans, brokers and missionaries who seek to aid those fleeing the North with Kirkpatrick and human rights advocate and U.S. businessman Steven Kim, founder of 318 Partners, an effort to rescue North Korean women trafficked to China. Chinese-North Korean Children…
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China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 | 12:00 PM
Entrenched relationships are being redefined across the Pacific, with China now South Korea’s number one trading partner and destination for foreign investment and tourism. What are the implications of this regional sea change for politics and security in East Asia? Join us as Scott Snyder, author of China's Rise and the Two Koreas: Politics, Economics, Security (Lynne Rienner, 2008), discusses the transformation of the Sino-South Korean relationship since the early…
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The Obama Administration and Korea: What’s in the Cards?
Sunday, March 1, 2009 | 12:00 PM
On Sunday, March 1, 2009, Evans J.R. Revere, president of The Korea Society, hosted a panel discussion entitled "The Obama Administration and Korea: What’s in the Cards?" on an episode of Asian America TV on New York's NYC-TV-25. Joining Revere was Jeffrey Shafer, vice chairman of Global Banking for Citi, and Professor Donald Zagoria of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy. The panel discussed the challenges facing the Obama…
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China-North Korea Relations: 60 Years Between Friction and Cooperation
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 | 12:00 PM
Though once described by Mao Zedong as being as close as "lips and teeth," the sixty-year history of the Sino-DPRK alliance has been littered with instances of tension and conflict. According to James Person, this history accounts for Pyongyang's deep mistrust of China and its interest in developing a relationship with the United States, despite appearances to the contrary. Newly obtained documents from the archives of North Korea's former communist…
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North Korea as a Challenge to Security and Stability in Northeast Asia
Friday, March 26, 2010 | 10:45 AM
On March 26, 2010, The Korea Society presented a panel discussion at the Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Philadelphia on the security challenges that North Korea poses to Northeast Asia. Moderated by The Korea Society president Evans J.R. Revere, the conversation included Scott Snyder, director of the Center for U.S.-Korea Policy at the Asia Foundation; Gordon Flake, executive director of the Mansfield Foundation; and Sydney Seiler, deputy North…
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In the Wake: Weighing Korean Options after the Cheonan Sinking
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 | 12:00 PM
The Korea Society, the leading American organization dedicated to understanding and cooperation between the U.S. and Korea, will convene a panel of experts to discuss possible Korean responses to the sinking of the Cheonan, a Republic of Korea Navy ship. Ambassador Thomas C. Hubbard, chairman of The Korea Society; John Delury, associate director of the Center on U.S.–China Relations; and David Straub, associate director of the Korean Studies Program at…
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North Korea: Market Opportunity, Poverty and the Provinces
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 | 6:30 PM
When assessing the impact of the mid-1990s famine on the North Korean population, experts have been working on an assumption: that North Koreans living in the country's breadbasket provinces were relatively better nourished than those in other provinces. Though a reasonable premise, Hazel Smith, professor of international relations at Warwick University and author of Hungry for Peace: International Security, Humanitarian Assistance and Social Change in North Korea, has researched reams…
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The New York Philharmonic
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 | 6:30 PM
A Panel Discussion When the New York Philharmonic became the first American orchestra to play in North Korea on February 26, 2008, decades worth of Cold War reality was stood on its head. With the stars and stripes standing on stage, the 1500 North Koreans in the audience stood at attention as the musicians launched into America's national anthem. A month later, four of those who orchestrated and covered the…
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Woolly Mammoth Theater Pre-Performance Session on North Korea
Thursday, November 15, 2012 | 6:00 PM
The Korea Society shares pre-performance insights and tackles patron Q&A on North Korea as part of the world premiere of Korean-American playwright Mia Chung’s You for Me for You; Chung has been hailed as “one of the most imaginative young writers of her generation.” Directed by Yury Urnov, the production portrays two North Korean sisters who face starvation and bargain with a smuggler to flee to the United States. When…
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