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Engaging North Korea: Human Rights, Nuclear Weapons and a Path to Peace in the Obama Era

KPI Fellow Christine Ahn introduces the Engaging North Korea Forum Dr. Bo-hyuk Suh, Research Professor, Ewha University, and former...

Engaging North Korea: Human Rights, Nuclear Weapons and a Path to Peace in the Obama Era Improving H

More from the Forum Presentation of Dr. Bo-hyuk Suh, Research Professor, Ewha University, and former senior researcher at the South Korea...

Testimony of Selig S. Harrison on U.S.-D.P.R.K. Relations

This is a very dangerous moment in our relations with North Korea, the most dangerous since June 1994, when Jimmy Carter went to...

The Untold Story Behind Human Rights Violations in North Korea

Lost in the flurry over North Korea’s detention of U.S. journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee is the story they sought to cover: the plight...

The Only Way Out: Negotiate With North Korea An Interview with Leon Sigal on Recent Events and U.S

This interview will also be published in Minjog 21 here. [Paul Liem]: Mr. Sigal, several weeks have passed since North Korea conducted...

The Case for a Peace Treaty to End the Korean War

Introduction North Korea’s detonation of a nuclear device and firing of short range missiles on May 25, 2009 is a direct result of the...

The Korea Policy Institute Releases Policy Brief on Negotiating with North Korea:

Los Angeles, May 29, 2009— A policy brief from the U.S. based Korea Policy Institute is being released just as the recent nuclear test by...

An Interview with Selig Harrison on the North Korean Satellite Launch & U.S.-D.P.R.K. Relations

Selig S. Harrison is director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy and a senior scholar of the Woodrow Wilson...

Uncovering the Hidden Histories of the Korean War: An Interview with the Standing Commissioner of th

(This interview was conducted on March 27, 2009. The interview took place in Korean and was translated by the interviewer. For Dr....

Uncovering the Hidden History of the Korean War: The Work of South Korea’s Truth and Reconcili

featuring KIM DONG-CHOON Standing Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Korea, Professor of Sociology, and...

Uncovering the Hidden Histories of the Korean War: The Work of South Korea’s Truth and Reconci

For Dr. Suzy Kims interview of Dong-Choon Kim, click here. For a video of the U.C. Berkeley conference on the work of the Truth and...

Why are U.S. Military Bases in South Korea? An Interview with John Feffer on

John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies and KPI Advisory Board Member, discusses the...

Putting Peace First

“If North Korea is genuinely prepared to completely and verifiably eliminate their nuclear weapons program,” Secretary of State Hillary...

More Than Just a Beef: South Koreans Push Back Against Free Trade Agreements with Canada, U.S.

Since the collapse of the last round of World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations in Cancun, Mexico, in September 2003, Canada and the...

Letter to Hillary Clinton

February 13, 2009 The Honorable Hillary Clinton U.S. Department of State 2201 C Street NW Washington, DC 20520 Dear Secretary Clinton: On...

An Expensive Division: Looking at the High Cost of Maintaining Two Koreas

Last October, I hiked up Bukhan-san outside of Seoul to pay homage to my late parents whose ashes rest in a shrine near the temple my...

Costs of Division The Cold War May Be Over, But the Korean Peninsula Is Still Strangling in Its Grip

Last October, I hiked up Bukhan-san outside of Seoul to pay homage to my late parents. Their ashes rest in a shrine near a temple my...

Roundtable on U.S.-North Korea Relations and the Obama Administration

Minjog 21, a leading progressive news journal based in South Korea, sponsored a roundtable interview with Thomas Kim, Executive Director...