Report on the Asia Institute Seminar on Nuclear power in North Korea (March 22, 2012)

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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.

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Joong Ang Monthly Asia Institute Seminar with Nayan Chanda (in Korean)

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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.

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“DMZ International Peace Residency” Symposium

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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.

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