Interviews

This blog has been privileged to host some interviews and discussions with some of world’s leading experts and insiders  on Korea and policy.  I expect to publish more such interviews as time permits.  Next up will be Professor Andrei Lankov, a former Soviet citizen who attended college at Kim Il Sung University in Pyongyang, who will discuss his new book, “North of the DMZ.”

• Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Scholar on Political Economy, American Enterprise  Institute  (also in Korean);
• Prof. Jae Ku, then-North Korea Program Director, Freedom House;
• Mr. Chuck Downs, private consultant,  former senior Pentagon official, and former Chair of the North Korea Working Group;
• Han Ki Hong, President, The Daily NK, An online news site focusing on North Korea.  Most of the Daily NK’s clandestine correspondents and many of its reporters and staff are North Koreans or defectors;
• L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation;
• Dr. Norbert Vollertsen, human rights activist (part 1, part 2);
• Dr. Marcus Noland and Dr. Stephan Haggard, co-authors, “Famine in North Korea:  Markets, Aid,  and Reform.”  My two-part review of their book (part 1, part 2) is  followed by their detailed and thoughtful response  to my review.  The material may be too wonkish for some, but I highly recommend their book.
• Prof. Andrei Lankov, author of “North of the DMZ,” and numerous other books and articles, on the  arrival of social and economic change  in North Korea despite the regime’s best efforts to isolate North Korean society.