Events

Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley will host Andray Abrahamian, the Executive Director of the Choson Exchange for a discussion on developments in North Korea's economic and social relations. Each one of us has some conception of North Korea. It has forced its way into our imaginations, yet so many […]

The Korea Institute of Harvard University will host a screening of "Divided Families," a documentary about families separated due to the Korean War. Following the screen will be a discussion with Jason Ahn, the director and executive producer and Jieun Baek, the producer of the film. About the Film:  When the border was drawn between […]

The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies will host Gi-Wook Shin and David Straub, who will present their study of "Tailored Engagement: Toward an Effective and Sustainable Inter-Korean Relations Policy." With the strategic situation on and around the Korean Peninsula continuing to worsen, Shorenstein APARC Director Gi-Wook Shin and his colleagues recently issued a major […]

Want to know what life is really like in North Korea? Join us Sunday, Nov. 16th at 3:00 pm as Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector and now well-known media personality, comes to Georgetown to talk about her experiences in the DPRK.  With her will be Casey Lartigue, who works for the think tank Freedom Factory […]

Few places on earth remain as mysterious and forbidding as North Korea. Even for the best trained spies, the truth about North Korean capabilities and intentions often remains elusive. More troubling, few countries pose as great a threat to American interests as North Korea, the center of a vast enterprise of nuclear proliferation and terrorism. […]