This week in North Korea

The week ahead in North Korea

President’s Commission on Unification Preparation at UCSD​

• Stephan Haggard will be hosting three members of President Park Geun Hye’s Presidential Commission on Unification at a public panel discussion at 4:30 on Monday (December 7) at the Robinson Auditorium at the Graduate School of Global Policy and Strategy.
• Dr. Chong-wook Chung, Dr. Chung-in Moon, Dr. Byung-yeon Kim, and Prof. Susan Shirk will be speaking.
• For more information, click here.

North Korean Human Rights Seminar at King's College​

• As a part of the 3rd North Korea Freedom Week in Europe, a seminar will be held in order to address the ​current situation of North Korean ​human rights. As ​a ​part of the event, four North Korean defector representatives will give public lectures at ​the Strand Campus of ​King's College London on the topic of North Korean human rights. 
• The event will be taking place from 18:00 to 20:00 on Monday 7th December.
• For more information click here.

UN council to meet on North Korea rights violations

• The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on December 10 to discuss human rights violations in North Korea, only the second time that such a session will been held.
• This year's request for a meeting was made by Britain, Chile, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain and the United States, which holds the council presidency this month.

Planning for Korean Unification: What Is Seoul Doing?​

• South Korean President Park Geun-hye has made Korean unification a central tenet of her foreign policy strategy. Chung Chong-wook, Moon Chung-in and Kim Byung-yeon will be holding a discussion on reunification policy chaired by Bruce Klingner.
• The event will be taking place form 12 to 1:30 pm on December 10th at the Heritage Foundation.
• For more information and to RSVP, click here.

Realizing Freedom of Information in North Korea ​

• Choi Jeong Hoon. Oh Joong Seok, Ishimaru Jiro, Kim Seung Chul and Nat Kretchun will be discussing the problems of getting information into and out of North Korea at the Kim Koo Museum and Library in Seoul.
• The event will be taking place from 2 to 5pm on 10th December.
• For more information contact 02-889-7470 or Kakao id yaheung0503.

North Korean Human Rights Film Screening at Korean Cultural Centre​

• ​As a part of the 3rd North Korea Freedom Week in Europe, a film screening will be held to feature the ​dire situation ​of​North Korean human rights. The film screening session will screen a documentary 'On the Border' ​at the Korean Cultural Centre. 
• The event will be taking place from 17:00 to 19:00 on Friday 11th December at the Korean Cultural Center in London.
• For more information click here.

Inter-Korean Relations in Historical Context​

• Jongdae Shin, Professor of political science at the University of North Korean Studies, Seukryule Hong, Professor of history at Sungshin Women’s University, and James Person, historian and Coordinator of the Wilson Center’s Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy will be discussing current and forthcoming inter-Korean negotiations.
• The event will be taking place from 3:30 to 5:00 pm on Friday 11th December at the Woodrow Wilson Center.