In honor of ROK President Park Geun-Hye’s 2014 and 2015 autumn visits to New York and the United Nations, The Korea Society launched The Analysts, a policy series that presented the nation’s foremost thought leaders on Korea to members from business, media, and international organizations.
David Straub of Stanford University’s Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center analyzed anti-US sentiments in Korea during his tenure at the US Embassy in Seoul from 1999 to 2002 in his important new publication, Anti-Americanism in Democratizing South Korea. Straub looked at the problem areas for the relationship then, spoke to the strength of today’s ties, […]
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 […]
South Korea’s geopolitical position dictates maintaining a strong alliance with the U.S. while exploring a harmonious partnership with China to protect and pursue its national interests. Preventing excessive conflicts between China and Japan also serves the interests of South Korea in terms of preserving peace and stability in Northeast Asia. President Park Geun-hye has visited […]
World leaders launched the “2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” at the United Nations Summit in September 2015. The Agenda was a plan of action for people, planet, and prosperity, comprising 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets which seek to build on and complete the Millennium Development Goals. The integrated goals and targets seek to […]
Yeonmi Park, the 21-year-old North Korean defector and human rights activist, discussed her new book, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom, with moderator David Hawk from the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea. Yeonmi Park: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom Members: Free with registration Nonmembers: […]
The Council on Foreign Relations’ Scott Snyder joined Korea Society president Tom Byrne to assess Korean President Park Geun-hye’s recent meeting with President Xi Jinping in Beijing and to comment on her speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Snyder also previewed President Park’s upcoming summit with President Barack Obama in Washington, […]
When President Park Geun-hye visits Washington next month, there will naturally be a lot of attention on North Korea. The October 16 Summit meeting will closely follow the 70th anniversary of DPRK independence on October 10, which Pyongyang’s leaders have threatened to celebrate with a ballistic missile test or other challenging gestures. President Obama will […]
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 […]
