Please sign the petition asking the US Senate to pass H.Con.Res.114/S.Con.Res.30 to help bring U.S. Citizen David Sneddon home. Sneddon went missing while hiking in China in 2004. It is believed that he may have been kidnapped by the North Korean regime as he was last seen leaving a Korean restaurant and was fluent in Korean. China allows North Korean… Read more →
April, 2016: Once more, North Korea finds itself in the international news cycle with threats of thermonuclear obliteration. Once more, experts, scholars, and enthusiasts alike muse about the anomaly that is the North Korean state and the circumstances that surround it. Inevitably, the discussion turns to the question of the endgame: how the North Korea situation could – or should… Read more →
With the latest escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula, we saw what is, in my mind, the rise of an age-old question raised every time the North Korean noise-machine gears up for war: “Will they actually do it, this time?” This question is the result of not just an image painstakingly put forth by the North Korean propaganda machine,… Read more →
Background: Ever since Kim Jong Eun came to power, his regime has worked aggressively to prevent North Koreans from escaping. The China-North Korea border is more dangerous today than ever before, which has made the cost of rescues grow astronomically along with a sharp decline in the number of refugees escaping. Complicit in the Kim regime’s reign of terror and… Read more →
Some time ago, I took a seminar class on Island Disputes in Northeast Asia. Our professor, for all of her expertise in objective instruction on the issues in question, stressed to us one subtle but critical point in forming our arguments: avoid pronouns, where possible. Simply put, she wanted us to always remember the entity to which we were referring… Read more →
“Collapse.” It is a word which one can hardly go a day without hearing and/or using in North Korea related dialog. Whether the discussion is about Human Rights, economics, or security issues, one can scarcely go a day without hearing the word “collapse” in some way or another. This word, in all of its universal use and commonality, is, to me,… Read more →
No doubt, the conference celebrating the one year anniversary of the UN COI Report was a valuable “state of affairs” gathering in terms of understanding the turbulent events of the past year. I do believe that I can say with confidence that any individuals who watched or attended the anniversary conference, hosted by CSIS, can scarcely argue that there was… Read more →
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By a vote of 11 in favor, 2 against, and 2 abstentions, the Security Council voted to permanently add the issue of North Korean Human Rights to its agenda…so what have we learned? The vote and ensuing discussion made clear the divide on the issue. The Human Rights situation in North Korea, as detailed in COI released earlier this year,… Read more →
Modern Times in North Korea: Scenes from its Founding Years, 1945-1950 Monday, Dec 15, 2014, 4:00 PM 6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 5 Members Went Washington History SeminarHistorical Perspectives on International and National AffairsModern Times in North Korea: Scenes from its Founding Years,[masked]Suzy KimRUTGERS UNIVERSITYClick here for more information and event registration.North Korea is often… Read more →