Stephan Haggard, author of Hard Target: Engaging North Korea, provides an assessment of a North Korea that is undergoing substantial economic and social change under the Kim Jong Un regime, in conversation with Korea Society president Thomas Byrne. Engaging North Korea Stephan Haggard Author of Hard Target: Engaging North Korea […]
February 23, 2016 North Korea: The End of “Patience”? Ambassador Thomas Hubbard North Korea’s detonation of a nuclear device on January 6 followed by a satellite launch on February 7, while widely predicted, have led to a sharp rise in tensions on the Korean Peninsula and called into question the “strategic […]
The Korea Society marks two years since the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry Report (COI) with a message from South Korea’s Ambassador on Human Rights Lee Jung-hoon and in-studio discussion with Greg Scarlatoiu. Executive Director of the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK), Scarlatoiu speaks to current efforts within the UN, among […]
February 7, 2016 Intl Reaction to North Korea’s Missile Launch Stephen E. Noerper A month and a day after conducting its fourth nuclear test, North Korea launched a multi-stage rocket carrying a 440-pound satellite. The launch of the Taepodong missile from the Tongchang-ri site, near the North’s border with China, on […]
Sylvia Kim, a human rights lawyer and policy advisor with the European Alliance for Human Rights in North Korea, offers an overview of the international legal framework aimed at protecting stateless persons and explains the plight of the stateless children born to North Korean refugees in China. Invisible Children:The Stateless Children of North Korean […]
Robert Boynton, Director at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, discusses his new book, The Invitation-Only Zone: The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project, a thoroughly researched investigative report of the systematic abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korean agents. Invitation-only zones were guarded communities for Japanese abducted by North Korean […]
January 6, 2016 North Korea Nuclear TestStephen E. Noerper On January 6, the DPRK tested what it claimed was a hydrogen bomb and a 5.1 seismic event was detected along the northeast coast, some thirty miles from the site of previous nuclear tests. Earlier, on December 10, Kim Jong Un bragged of […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
