--> The U.S. and South Korea have promised a bright future for North Korea if it denuclearizes. Reform is fundamentally North Korea's choice. But a successful economic transition will take a long time given that North Korea remains stuck in a low-income trap. Pyongyang’s “marketization from below” and ring-fenced infrastructure projects will not be enough. North Korea will require substantial and sustained amounts of external financing, hence the need for… Read More

Harvard Medical School Global Surgery Scholar Kee B. Park, M.D. and Korea Foundation-Vrije Universiteit Brussel Korea Chair Dr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo examined North Korea’s growing injury burden and the regime’s ability to respond. They addressed marketization, affluence, political factors, domestic and international resource mobilization, sanctions impact, and roadmaps for a multistakeholder national system. Trauma Care and North Korea with Kee B. Park and Ramon Pacheco Pardo Thursday, June 20, 2019… Read More

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy spearheads an all-day discussion among senior U.S., Korean and Chinese scholars, analysts, and former government officials at the Korea Society on North Korea’s missile and nuclear development and regional security. By Invitation. Korea-U.S.-China Relations: National Committee on American Foreign Policy Trilateral Dialogue Thursday, May 23, 2019 | 9 AM The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor New York, NY 10017 Join our… Read More

Stanford University Visiting Fellow Andray Abrahamian and Korea Economic Institute Nonresident Fellow Yonho Kim join Society President Thomas Byrne to discuss how North Korea’s marketization has impacted social ties, communication, governance, and culture. Marketization and North Korea with Andray Abrahamian and Yonho Kim Thursday, June 13, 2019 | 12 PM The Korea Society 350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor New York, NY 10017 Join our membership program here! E-News sign-up Read More

The Korea Society welcomes former United Nations Command/Combined Forces Command/US Forces Korea Commanders Generals (ret.) Vincent Brooks and Walter “Skip” Sharp for an insightful hour of analysis on Korea and prospects for peace and confidence-building going forward. General Brooks, who recently completed his tenure in Korea and spoke at Stanford University in March, reflects on the state of the US-ROK alliance, US negotiations with North Korea, and progress in inter-Korea… Read More

In an article for The National Interest, Korea Society Senior Director Stephen Noerper writes, "The Hanoi Summit was not the unmitigated disaster many observers termed it. It is step two in a likely long and arduous process that will entail breakoffs, walkaways and other setbacks that accompany denuclearization." Read More

But many Korea experts welcomed Trump’s decision to walk away. “Better no deal than a bad deal,” said Thomas Byrne, the president of the Korea Society. A deal that would not lead to “full, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization,” one that would have accepted North Korea’s status as a nuclear power, would have weakened America’s alliance with South Korea and Japan and proven destabilizing, he said. Read More

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