Topics to include: changing perceptions in DPRK; DPRK’s path to development; socio-economic rights; investments; the Helsinki process in northeast Asia?; political leadership of DPRK; culture and music in the DPRK; scientific and technical cooperation with the DPRK; transitions from communist central planning; investments socio-economic impact; humanitarian assistance experiences; the emerging architecture of security and cooperation in northeast Asia; DPRK human rights in reform policy.
Speakers to include: Jan Ramstad (Chairman, Rafto Foundation for Human Rights); Kjell Magne Bondevik (President, Oslo Centre for Peace and Human Rights); Jim Hoare (Former UK Ambassador to Pyongyang); Professor Dae-Sook Suh; Aidan Foster-Carter (Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology & Modern Korea, Leeds University); Carl Gershman (President, NED); Rüdiger Frank (Professor of East Asian Economy & Society, Vienna University); Paul French (Access Asia & author of North Korea Paranoid Peninsula); Jan Winiecki (Professor of Economics, University of Information Technology and Management Rzeszow); Hwan-Cheol Youn (Director, Korea Peace Institute); Myeong-ho Park (Captain, North Korean Air Force); John Park ( Director, Korea Working Group, US Institute of Peace); James Goodby (Former US Ambassador, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution); Man-ho Heo, Professo ( Kyungpook National University); Benjamin H. Yoon (Representative, Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights); Changrok Soh ( Dean, Korea University GSIS)
'North Korea - The Paranoid Peninsula' 2008
When: Wednesday 30th January - 4pm
Where: Korea Research Hub, University of Leeds, Room G.03, 20 Cromer Terrace, Leeds, UK
From one of the world’s 20 largest economies in 1975 to an estimated two million dead from famine twenty years later and then to the world’s most isolated and little understood nuclear power. How did North Korea manage to so spectacularly mismanage its economy, manage its population, seal its borders and get the bomb? Paul French, the author of North Korea: Paranoid Peninsula – A Modern History (Zed Books, London, 2007) details the rise, fall and dynamics of North Korea’s economy, society and political leadership and the likelihood of future change.
Forthcoming
Carl Crow – A Tough Old China Hand – Book Talk – Suzhou Bookworm – TBC
North Korea Update: The Possibilities of Forward Motion – Chengdu Bookworm – tbc
Writing Crime in China - with Qiu Xiaolong and Catherine Sampson - Beijing Bookworm International Literary Festival - Friday 7 March - Beijing Bookworm
JP Morgan China Conference - Beijing - April
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