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North Korea and Information Access

Thursday, October 29, 2015 | 6:00 PM
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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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- About the Speaker: 2015-08-25 12:00:00
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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
People with Disabilities in a Changing North Korea

Thursday, April 30, 2015 | 12:00 PM
- About the Speaker Title: People with Disabilities in a Changing North Korea
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- Event Link: Katharina Zellweger is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Prior to that she was the Pantech Fellow in Korean Studies at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, in residence at Stanford University from November 2011 to August 2013. Most recently at Stanford she gave a course entitled “An Insight into North Korea Society” for graduate and undergraduate students. She is a frequent presenter on the topic of the situation of the North Korean people, to audiences in the U.S. and abroad. Zellweger has also made significant contributions in this field through her participation in workshops, seminars and conferences about humanitarian, as well as security, issues on the Korean peninsula, more specifically regarding North Korea. Zellweger is a senior aid manager with over 30 years of field experience in Hong Kong, China and North Korea. She was based in Pyongyang for five years (2006-2011) as North Korea country director for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), an office of the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The focus of her work was on sustainable agricultural production in order to address food security issues, income generation to improve people’s livelihoods, and capacity development contributing to individual and institutional learning. Before joining SDC, Zellweger worked from 1978 to 2006 for the Catholic agency Caritas in Hong Kong in a senior post; she played a key role in pioneering Caritas involvement initiatives in China and in North Korea. Zellweger received the Bishop Tji Hak-soon Justice and Peace Award in 2005 from a South Korean foundation established to promote social justice, and in 2006 the Dame of St. Gregory the Great from the Vatican for her work in North Korea. Upon the invitation of The Korea Society of New York she organized a (still on-going) travelling exhibition of her collection of North Korean socialist posters. Zellweger has a Master’s in International Administration, School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Katharina Zellweger, former North Korea country director for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, discussed current research on the issue of people with disabilities in North Korean society. Ms. Zellweger, who first visited the DPRK over 20 years ago, worked in North Korea from 2006-2011 on humanitarian aid and development assistance. People with Disabilities in a Changing North Korea with Katharina Zellweger, former North Korea Country Director for the Swiss Agency for... Read More
Human Rights and Diplomacy on the Korean Peninsula

Wednesday, February 25, 2015 | 12:00 PM
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- Event Link: Professor Victor Cha (Ph.D. Columbia, MA Oxford, BA Columbia) is director of Asian Studies and holds the D.S. Song Chair in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. In 2009, he was named as Senior Adviser and the inaugural holder of the new Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He left the White House in May 2007 after serving since 2004 as Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council. At the White House, he was responsible primarily for Japan, the Korean peninsula, Australia/New Zealand and Pacific Island nation affairs. Dr. Cha was also the Deputy Head of Delegation for the United States at the Six Party Talks in Beijing, and received two Outstanding Service commendations during his tenure at the NSC.  He is the author of five books: 1) Alignment Despite Antagonism: The United States-Korea-Japan Security Triangle (Stanford University Press) (winner of the 2000 Ohira Book Prize), 2) Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (Columbia University Press, 2004 with Dave Kang), 3) Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia (Columbia, 2009); 4) The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (HarperCollins, 2012); and 5) Powerplay: Origins of the American Alliance System in Asia (Princeton University Press, forthcoming). He has written articles on international relations and East Asia in journals including Foreign Affairs, International Security, Political Science Quarterly, Survival, International Studies Quarterly, and Asian Survey. Professor Cha is a former John M. Olin National Security Fellow at Harvard University, two-time Fulbright Scholar, and Hoover National Fellow, CISAC Fellow, and William J. Perry Fellow at Stanford University. He holds Georgetown’s Dean’s Award for teaching in 2010 and the Distinguished Research Award for 2011.  He serves as an independent consultant, and has testified before Congress on Asian security issues. He has been a guest analyst for various media including CNN, ABC Nightline, NBC Today Show, CBS Morning Show, Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, ESPN, Sports Illustrated, and National Public Radio. He has a cameo role (as himself) in the upcoming action film “Red Dawn” (Contrafilm, MGM, Vincent Newman Entertainment) scheduled for release in November 2012. His newest book, The Impossible State: North Korea, Past and Future (released April 2012 by HarperCollins Ecco), was selected by Foreign Affairs as a best book of 2012 on the Asia-Pacific.   Lindsay Lloyd is the Program Director at Freedom Collection, and is responsible for setting a vision for and managing the content of the Freedom Collection, overseeing the Freedom Collection website, building the physical archive, and identifying audiences and developing strategies to reach those audiences.  Lindsay comes from the International Republican Institute (IRI), where he served for 16 years, most recently as Senior Advisor for Policy. Previously, he was IRI’s Regional Director for Europe and Co-Director of the Regional Program for Central and Eastern Europe, which is based in Bratislava, Slovakia. At IRI, Lindsay organized and delivered numerous trainings in Slovakia, Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Turkey. He also conducted assessment missions to Argentina, Azerbaijan, Colombia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Paraguay, Slovenia and Vietnam and worked on get-out-the-vote campaigns for the 1997 Slovak referendum and parliamentary elections in Bulgaria, Slovakia and Slovenia. He has observed 15 elections and overseen polling and political consultation projects in Romania and Bulgaria. After graduating from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, Lindsay spent 12 years working in American politics. He worked for several members of the U.S. House of Representatives, as political director for a political action committee, and for Jack Kemp’s 1988 presidential campaign.
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Marking a year since the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) Report on North Korea, Dr. Victor Cha, Senior Advisor and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and Director of Asian Studies, Georgetown University, speaks to the significance of the report and steps forward. Dr. Cha will be joined by Lindsay Lloyd, Program Director at the Bush Institute, in conversation with The Korea Society SVP Dr. Stephen Noerper. Human Rights and Diplomacy on the... Read More
Confronting the Human Rights Challenge in North Korea

Monday, June 23, 2014 | 12:00 PM
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- Event Link: Lee Jung-hoon is South Korea’s Ambassador for Human Rights. He is also Director of the Center for Modern Korean Studies and Center for American Studies at Yonsei University. He serves as a senior member of South Korea’s National Unification Advisory Council and chair of the Ministry of Unification’s Advisory Committee for Humanitarian Affairs. He also is Co-Chair of Save NK, an NGO dealing mainly with North Korean human rights; Chair of the ‘Committee for the Establishment of Refugee Camp for the North Korean Defectors’; and Vice-Chair of the Supporter’s Group for the ‘House of Sharing’ where several remaining “comfort women” are housed.
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During Kim Jong-un’s rule, North Korea’s unrelenting deprivation of fundamental human rights has, if possible, gotten even worse. North Koreans seek to flee the regime ruled by political prisons, torture, hunger, and public execution, completely void of fundamental rights or an adequate standard of living. The UN Commission of Inquiry condemned Pyongyang for “systemic, widespread, and gross violations of human rights” of such a monumental scale as to constitute crimes against humanity. What will it take for the... Read More
Obama visits Asia: State of the Rebalance

Friday, May 23, 2014 | 12:00 PM
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State of the Rebalance Thomas Hubbard, US State Department/Korea Society/McLarty AssociateMay 23,2014 President Obama’s recent trip to Asia was a timely, perhaps necessary, reminder that the “rebalance” to Asia remains an important pillar of US foreign policy despite the distraction of immediate crises elsewhere in the world. During an unusually lengthy eight-day trip, Obama visited three treaty allies—Japan, Korea, and the Philippines—and a long-neglected friend, Malaysia. Reacting to the first stop... Read More
Ambassadors’ Dialogue: U.S.- Korea Relations

Tuesday, May 13, 2014 | 12:00 PM

As part of the Korea Economic Institute of America's Ambassadors' Dialogue Series, American Ambassador Sung Kim and Republic of Korea Ambassador Ahn Ho-young address current Peninsular economic and security issues, as well as the state of U.S.-Korea relations. Ambassadors’ Dialogue: U.S.- Korea Relations Tuesday, May, 13, 2014 11:30 AM | Registration & Luncheon 12:15 PM | Discussion Join our membership program here! E-News sign-up May 13, 2014 - Ambassadors Ahn Ho-young and Sung... Read More
Inside North Korea

Monday, April 14, 2014 | 5:30 PM
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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

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