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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
On March 28, 2014, Korean President Park Geun-hye delivered a historic address on Korean unification at the Dresden University of Technology in Dresden, Germany. Friday, March 28, 2014 Park’s Historic Dresden Address on Unification
Amnesty International’s Frank Jannuzi discusses the release of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) report of North Korean human rights violations. The report follows an extensive year-long review, including testimony by victims of the regime. Frank Jannuzi, Deputy Executive Director of Advocacy, Policy and Research and Head of Washington, DC Office of […]
Join dynamic contemporary artist Jin Joo Chae in this Studio Korea session. Jin Joo Chae employs printmaking and mixed media and is concerned with American coverage of the tense dynamics between North and South Korea. Using fragile and fragrant media–newspaper and screen-printed chocolate–she manipulates dominant political narratives to suggest more complex and physically embodied realities. […]
