Video: Sung-Yoon Lee at The Korea Society
If you think he’s a good writer, just see how well he speaks.
It’s also nice to see Stephen Noerper helping The Korea Society to rebuild its reputation and gravitas after the Don Gregg years.
In related news, William Newcomb, formerly with the U.S. Treasury Department and the U.N. Panel of Experts, will be at the Korea Society on Friday, to speak about “Sanctions Fact and Sanctions Fiction.”
Lee Sung-Yoon praised Secretary of State John Kerry as the first senior official of either the United States or the Republic of Korea ever to call for North Korea’s political prison camps to be closed.
By the way, not from any unhealthy obsession with Russia, but just to help us see North Korea’s global context, here’s an update on President Putin: he thinks the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact wasn’t so bad after all. If my link doesn’t work, just look for Timothy Snyder’s latest contribution to the New York Review of Books. Snyder explains the pact and links to a recent discussion between Putin and some Russian historians.
Yes, I also praised Kerry when he said that. Now let’s see what he does.