North Korea

  • North Korean Sanctions and Adaptation

    Thursday, November 19, 2020 | 12:00 PM
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    Join us for a discussion on international economic sanctions on North Korea with William Newcomb, Fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies and former Member of the Panel of Experts on DPRK Sanctions at the United Nations, Darya Dolzikova of the Royal United Services Institute, and Cameron Trainer of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. In a conversation moderated by policy director Jonathan Corrado, the three experts discuss the role of sanctions in the negotiation process,... Read More

  • After the US Presidential Election: Gauging the Results for Korea and Northeast Asia

    Thursday, November 5, 2020 | 12:00 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2019-04-12_TKS_NewGenerationThinkingInChinaAndKorea_ZakaryDychtwald.mp3
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    Washington insiders Keith Luse, Executive Director of the National Committee on North Korea, and Frank Jannuzi, President and CEO of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation, reflect on the results of the US Presidential election for Korea and Northeast Asia in conversation with Senior Director Stephen Noerper. Luse and Jannuzi, both longtime, former Senate Foreign Relations Committee senior staff members, opine on the impact by way of policy and personalities, as well as potential new initiatives.This event is... Read More

  • New Views on Korean Peace Regime and Unification

    Thursday, October 15, 2020 | 11:00 AM
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    Join us for this discussion on prospects for a peace regime and inter-Korean social integration with Frank Aum, United States Institute of Peace, Hannah Song, President & CEO at Liberty in North Korea, Rachel Minyoung Lee, former intelligence analyst for the U.S. government, and Joseph Kim, Human Freedom Initiative, George W. Bush Institute. How might the U.S. and South Korea cooperate with regional partners to pursue a long term peace process? How do generational dynamics and social changes in North and... Read More

  • Looking Toward the US Presidential Election and Korea and Northeast Asia Policy

    Thursday, October 1, 2020 | 12:00 PM
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    Daniel Russel, Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute, and Susan Thornton, Project Director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale University, join Senior Director Stephen Noerper for a discussion on the upcoming US Presidential election, with an eye to US policy implications for Korea and Northeast Asia. This all-star session draws on the vast foreign service experience... Read More

  • Prospects for Diplomacy with North Korea

    Wednesday, September 16, 2020 | 12:00 PM
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    Join us for a discussion on challenges and opportunities for continued nuclear negotiations with North Korea, featuring Markus Garlauskas, former U.S. National Intelligence Officer for North Korea, Soo Kim, RAND, and Ankit Panda, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. What are the chances that North Korea denuclearizes and what can the U.S. and South Korea do to increase those chances? Should an interim deal with snapback measures be considered good progress, or should a comprehensive deal be pursued?This... Read More

  • A Tribute to General and Ambassador Paik, Sun-yup Webinar

    Friday, July 17, 2020 | 8:30 AM
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    Korea Society board chair Ambassador Kathleen Stephens pays tribute to the late General Paik Sun-yup during this memorial program hosted by the Korea Defense Veterans Association (KDVA) and the Korea-U.S. Alliance Foundation (KUSAF).   General Paik, the first South Korean to achieve the rank of four-star general, passed away on July 10, 2020 at the age of 99. About General Paik, Ambassador Stephens said, "He was such a key figure in building the extraordinary military of the Republic of Korea and building an... Read More

  • Friend: A Novel & Popular Culture of North Korea

    Thursday, July 9, 2020 | 6:30 PM
    • Podcast MP3: http://traffic.libsyn.com/koreasociety/2019-04-12_TKS_NewGenerationThinkingInChinaAndKorea_ZakaryDychtwald.mp3
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    First published in Pyongyang in 1988, Friend by Paek Nam-Nyong is one of the few North Korean novels that has reached an international audience. Professor Immanuel Kim, the translator of Friend and a specialist in North Korean literature and cinema, offers a glimpse into contemporary life in North Korea through this novel and other popular culture from Pyongyang. "a beguiling introduction to the everyday, with none of the rockets and military parades that the words “North Korea” often bring to mind" - The New... Read More
  • The Society in Outside Podcasts

    The Society in Outside Podcasts

    A collection of audio podcasts featuring mentions of the Korea Society and its team. 6/4/20 |  CSIS | CENTER for STRATEGIC & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES| CSIS Korea Chair Capital Cable #3 In a CSIS Korea Chair program, Ambassador (ret) Mark Lippert said, "Tom Byrne, president of the Korea society, and a long time financial analyst at Moody’s who really knows his way around finance and economics issues, wrote a piece on foreign policy at the end of April about the dire financial and economic state of the regime in... Read More
  • The Korea Society Reflection

    The Korea Society Reflection

      The Korea Society joins the nation in mourning the senseless killing of George Floyd and stands in solidarity with those who peacefully exercise their constitutional rights in demanding justice. The Korea Society has been, and remains, committed to bridging cultural and racial divides. After the 1992 Los Angeles riots that exposed deep divides between black, Korean, and other communities in Los Angeles, the Society established a long-term educational project for high school students. The program focuses on... Read More

  • Becoming Kim Jong Un with Jung Pak

    Thursday, May 14, 2020 | 12:00 PM
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    Dr. Jung H. Pak discusses her new book on the rise of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, in conversation with Society President Tom Byrne. Pak, a Brookings Institution Senior Fellow and former CIA analyst, provides a behind-the-scenes look at Kim’s character and motivations and chronicles his nuclear ambitions and summitry with President Trump. The book is available for purchase at Penguin Random House.      To buy Becoming Kim Jong Un, please... Read More

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