The Korea Times featured this article about the North Korea escapee Shin Dong-hyuk and his harrowing struggle for freedom with a focus on the recently published book Escape from Camp 14 which describes that experience. The book was written by the American journalist Blaine Harden.
In this interview with Richard Bush, director of the Center for Northeast Asia Policy Studies at Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., we discuss recent developments in China and the important role of Korea in Northeast Asia and around the world.
Stephane Mot published this article about the lively discussion at the Asia Institute seminar on North Korea’s nuclear program held on Thursday.
Dr. Kim Myungja
President Green 21
(former minister of the environment; author of “The
Nuclear Dilemma”)
Dr. Sok Chul Kim
Senior Researcher
Korea Institute for Nuclear Safety
Ms. Sharon Squassoni
Director
Proliferation Prevention Program
CSIS
Mr. Scott Snyder
Senior Fellow for Korea Studies
Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy
Council on Foreign Relations
North Korea and Nukes: Back to the Stone Age?
As expected, North Korea set the agenda ahead of the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit (see focus on Seoul Village), this time by announcing for April a ‘satellite’ launch in the general direction of (Japan, thank Kim The Third for small mercies) the East China Sea.
Asia Institute Seminar
Nayan Chanda
Author and Journalist
(Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization)
Emanuel Pastreich
Director
The Asia Institute
(Professor, Kyung Hee University)
“Korea and Globalization”
February 3, 2012
This article is the Korean version of the Asia Institute Seminar with Mr. Nayan Chanda. Mr. Nayan Chanda serves as the Director of Publications and the Editor of YaleGlobal Online Magazine at theYale Center for the Study of Globalization. he is a distinguished author and long-time journalist–best known for breaking stories from the Far Eastern Economic Review. The interview concerns Korea’s new global role and the long-term process of globalization that has formed our world.
Emanuel will be a discussant on Saturday, March 17, 2012, at a symposium concerning the “DMZ International Peace Residency” established adjacent to the DMZ near Yeoncheon by the Institute for Modern Art of Kyung Hee University.
Here is a short description of the event:
The Institute for Modern Art at Kyung Hee University, taking as its subject the “wound of global conflict” that defines the division of the Korean Peninsula strives to imagine how we can use culture and art to heal that wound.
The Asia Institute
Seminar
February 13, 2012
(With support of the Global Peace Youth Corps)
Speaker:
Dr. Richard Bush
Director
Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies
Brookings Institution
Moderator:
Emanuel Pastreich
President
The Asia Institute
(Associate Professor, Kyung Hee University)
Emanuel Pastreich
Thank you for joining us this afternoon. We live in an age in which China’s impact on the world is growing daily, and yet many have only a very vague idea of how China actually works. Your insights are most valued. Tell us a little about your current research on China and Northeast Asia.
Richard Bush
I spend most of my time conducting research on China-Taiwan relations these days. I am currently writing a book on contemporary Taiwan-China relations in which I trace the relationship and offer my views on prospects for the future. I also dabble in other aspects of East Asian Security issues from time to time. I have done a long report on North Korea and its nuclear programs. I have written about China-Japan security relations as well.
You might expect South Koreans to be glued to the TV wondering what will happen next in North Korea. But you would be pretty far off. If anything, it is the internationals who are watching carefully. When I looked at the website of KBS News this evening, North Korea was not even in the top stories listed.
I have yet to see an article discussing the implications of climate change for North Korea. But the topic came up in a recent Asia Institute seminar with Vince Rubino, Matthew Weigand and I. If climate change, the global financial chaos, digitalization and the disorder stemming to domestic and international conflicts sweeping the world worsen in the years to come, there may be some unexpected consequences. Not the least of which would be the strengthening of North Korean power and influence.
“Strengthening of North Korean power? Wait a minute, Emanuel, what are you talking about? I thought North Korea was on the edge of collapse.