The North Korean Conundrum | United States

Date: Thursday, October 28, 2021. 12:00 PM. Location: Online October 28, 12:00 pm-1:15 pm PDT/ 3:00 pm-4:15 pm EDT This is a joint book launch with CSIS in Washington, D.C. While North Korea’s nuclear weapons and the security threat it poses have occupied the center stage and eclipsed other issues in recent years, human rights remain important to U.S. policy. The edited volume, The North Korean Conundrum, explores how dealing with the issue of human rights is shaped and affected by the political issues with which it is so entwined. In this book launch event, contributors of the book will discuss the relationship between human rights and denuclearization, and how North Koreans’ limited access to information is part of the problem, and how this is changing. Speakers: Victor Cha, Senior Vice President and Korea Chair at CSIS; Vice Dean for Faculty and Graduate Affairs & D.S. Song-KF Professor of Government at Georgetown University Robert King, former Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues; Senior Adv...