North Korea

  • 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
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    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

  • The Case for Diplomacy: A Closer Look at Denuclearization Talks

    Friday, September 7, 2018 | 12:00 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2018-09-07_TheCaseForDiplomacy_ACloserLookAtDenuclearizationTalks.mp3
    • Podcast URL: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/case-for-diplomacy-closer-look-at-denuclearization/id210903888?i=1000419319049&mt=2
    As discussions to denuclearize North Korea develop, a number of vexing problems, seen before in previous negotiations, have resurfaced. How can the United States and South Korea avoid the trappings while still benefiting from the successful elements of the past? To find out, The Korea Society's associate director for policy Jonathan Corrado sat down with two experts from Ploughshares Fund, Director of Policy Tom Z. Collina and Roger L. Hale Fellow Catherine Killough. They shared insights to challenge the... Read More

  • After Talks, What Next with North Korea?

    Thursday, June 14, 2018 | 6:00 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2018-06-14_AfterTalksWhatNextWithNorthKorea.mp3
    • Podcast URL: itms://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/after-talks-what-next-north-korea-post-summit-assessment/id210903888?i=1000413891298&mt=2
    • Youtube Video:
      How do we frame the Trump-Kim summit? What are critical next-steps? Get a Washington insider perspective with Mansfield Foundation President and CEO Frank Jannuzi and National Committee on North Korea Executive Director Keith Luse. Frank and Keith served as senior advisors to US Senate Relations Committee Chairs, and both bring unique contacts and sensibilities to this discussion on dialogue with North Korea and efforts to prevent conflict. Jannuzi and Luse join Korea Society Senior Director Stephen Noerper. This... Read More

  • The Korea Society in the News

    Sunday, May 27, 2018 | 8:30 AM
    Publications and news appearances by The Korea Society team.      1/20/25 |  The National Interest | From CHIPS to Ships: The Next Step in the U.S.-ROK Alliance The Korea Society President/CEO Tom Byrne published an article in The National Interest proposing a solution to the United States’ lacking presence in the shipbuilding industry. President Byrne asserts that cooperation with allies like South Korea could bolster U.S. shipbuilding capacity, similar to how American manufacturing has benefitted from the... Read More

  • Korea-US-China Relations

    Monday, May 21, 2018 | 9:00 AM
    This by-invitation trilateral dialogue, organized by the National Committee on American Foreign Policy, examines relations among the United States, South Korea, and China. The National Committee brings together scholars and former officials from the three nations to address areas of common concern and challenges, to include that posed by North Korea’s nuclear and missile development. The meeting takes place subsequent to the planned third Inter-Korean summit and around the potential historic meeting between President... Read More
  • Journals and Book Reviews

    Journals and Book Reviews

    Contributions by the Korea Society team in academic and policy journals. |   8/16/2023 | Biases blind us to the risk of Chinese military intervention in Korea |  In an article published by the Atlantic Council, Biases blind us to the risk of Chinese military intervention in Korea, Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado examines the historical record to highlight the cognitive biases that have plagued US intelligence assessments, with a particular focus on failures preceding China’s intervention in Korea... Read More

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