Importance of U.S.-South Korea relations in dealing with North Korea
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Gi-Wook Shin, director of APARC, emphasized the importance of U.S.-South Korea relations in dealing with North Korea including nuclear issues at a seminar hosted by San Francisco Chapter of National Unification Advisory Council of Korea.
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Obama keeping steady course on North Korea
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The Obama administration's willingness to talk bilaterally with North Korea does not signify any weakening of U.S. support for the Six Party Talks and North Korean denuclearization, stresses David Straub, associate director of the Korean Studies Program at APARC, in an interview with major South Korean daily Dong-A Ilbo.
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Korean Studies Program welcomes visiting fellows and scholars for 2009-2010 academic year
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The Korean Studies Program at Asia-Pacific Research Center welcomes Pantech Fellow, Koret Fellow, and visiting scholars from diverse backgrounds and experiences for 2009-2010 academic year.
Pantech Fellow
- Peter Behk: former executive director of the U.S. Commitee for Human Rights in North Korea
Koret Fellow
- Byungwon Bahk: former Senior Advisor to President Lee Myung-bak of Korea
Visiting Scholars
- Young Whan Kihl: Professor Emeritus, department of Political Science, Iowa State University
- Tong Ki Woo: former President of Yeungnam University, Korea
- Na-Ree Lee: Chief Reporter, JoonAng Ilbo, Korea
- Hyungkuk Youm: Attorney at Law, Korean Public Interest Lawyers' Group
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Development, Democracy and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe
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Stephan Haggard is the Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is the author of Pathways from the Periphery: the Political Economy of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries (1990) and The Political Economy of the Asian Financial Crisis (2000) and co-author of The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions (1995 with Robert Kaufman), Famine in North Korea: Markets, Aid and Reform (with Marcus Noland, 2007) and Development, Democracy and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia and Eastern Europe (with Robert Kaufman, 2008). He is currently working on a second volume on North Korea with Marcus Noland entitled North Korea Opens and a project on Robert Kaufman on inequality and politics.
His scholarly articles have appeared in International Organization, World Politics, Comparative Politics, The Journal of Asian Studies, Latin American Research Review, Comparative Political Studies, World Development, Studies in Comparative International Development and The Journal of Democracy. His commentary has appeared in a number of outlets, including The Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, and Newsweek.
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War and its Aftermath in North Korea: Images from the 1950s
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In the 1950s the North Korean people lived through the cataclysm of the Korean War and the ferment of postwar reconstruction. Rare photographs have now emerged that help shed light on this turbulent era. In an audiovisual presentation, Chris Springer shares some of these photos from his new book North Korea Caught in Time: Images of War and Reconstruction.
The images depict the devastation wreaked by U.S. bombing, the destitution faced by civilians, the operations of the North Korean army, and the reconstruction of shattered cities. Also shown are senior politicians who were later purged and erased from the official record. Chris Springer will explain the photos’ varied origins (from both official and amateur photographers) and discuss what the images reveal about North Korean history.
California-born Chris Springer is the author of North Korea Caught in Time (2009) and Pyongyang: The Hidden History of the North Korean Capital (2003). He also curated the 2002 exhibition Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in Budapest, Hungary. His research focuses on North Korean domestic history. He has visited North Korea three times.
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NCTA Teacher Workshop: North Korea
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To an audience of high school teachers, Philip Yun recounted his experience as a deputy to the head U.S. delegate to the four-party Korea peace talks and as a senior policy advisor to the U.S. Coordinator for North Korea. In addition, Yun offered his personal reflections on North Korea's past and future.
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Philip W. Yun is currently vice president for Resource Development at The Asia Foundation, based in San Francisco. Prior to joining The Asia Foundation, Yun was a Pantech Scholar in Korean Studies at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.
At Stanford, his research focused on the economic and political future of Northeast Asia. From 2001 to 2004, Yun was vice president and assistant to the chairman of H&Q Asia Pacific, a premier U.S. private equity firm investing in Asia. From 1994 to 2001, Yun served as an official at the United States Department of State, serving as a senior advisor to two Assistant Secretaries of State, as a deputy to the head U.S. delegate to the four-party Korea peace talks and as a senior policy advisor to the U.S. Coordinator for North Korea Policy.
Prior to government service, Yun practiced law at the firms of Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in San Francisco and Garvey Schubert & Barer in Seattle, and was a foreign legal consultant in Seoul, Korea. Yun attended Brown University and the Columbia School of Law. He graduated with an A.B. in mathematical economics (magna cum laude and phi beta kappa) and was a Fulbright Scholar to Korea. He is on the board of directors of the Ploughshares Fund and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.
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David Straub joins Clinton delegation to North Korea to secure release of Current TV journalists
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David Straub, associate director of the Korean Studies Program at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), was a part of the delegation led by former president Bill Clinton to secure the early August release of two Current TV journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, held in North Korea since mid March 2009. Straub, a noted educator and commentator on Northeast Asian affairs, served as head of the political section of the U.S. embassy in Seoul, South Korea from 1999 to 2002, and then as director of the State Department’s Korea desk from 2002 to 2004, where he played a key working level role in the Six-Party talks on North Korea’s nuclear program.
The Current TV journalists were arrested on March 17 near the North Korea border with China while reporting on human trafficking for San Francisco-based Current TV, co-founded by former vice president Al Gore and entrepreneur Joel Hyatt. In June, the two journalists were sentenced to 12 years hard labor. Held in isolation from each other, the two were allowed periodic phone conversations with their families. According to public reports, the journalists told their families in a July phone call that North Korea would grant them amnesty “if an envoy in the person of Bill Clinton would agree to come to Pyongyang and seek their release.”
On August 4, following a visit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il and a somber Clinton – a meeting highly photographed and publicized in North Korea, the two journalists were released to the Clinton delegation and flew home to Los Angeles to their families. Visibly exhausted upon their arrival in Burbank, the two journalists chose not to comment. Laura Ling has announced through her sister Lisa, who is also a journalist, that she is preparing an account of their ordeal.
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Two jailed American journalists in North Korea returned home
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Former President Bill Clinton and his delegation brought the two American journalists home. North Korean leader, Kim Jong-il issued the journalists a "special pardon" when Mr. Clinton and his delegation met him in Pyongyang. "Among those accompanying Mr. Clinton was David Straub," associate director of Korean Studies Program at APARC, "who had held talks with the North Koreans through what is known as the 'New York connection.'"
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Daniel Sneider comments on the release of two Current TV journalists to Associated Press
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Current TV's journalists' release followed weeks of quiet negotiations between the State Department and the North Korean mission to the United Nations says Daniel C. Sneider, Associate Director for Research at the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center.
"Nobody wanted this to be a distraction from the more substantially difficult issues we have with North Korea," he said. "There was a desire by the administration to resolve this quietly, and from the very beginning they didn't allow it to become a huge public issue."
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