What steps should the United States and South Korea take to maintain peace and stability in Northeast Asia?
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IFES: Preventing North Korea's Nuclear Breakout
제115차IFES해외학자초청세미나
로버트리트웍(Robert S. Litwak) 박사초청
♣주제:북핵문제를어떻게풀것인가? (Preventing North Korea's Nuclear Breakout)
♣장소:경남대극동문제연구소평화관1층대회의실
Joun-yung Sun, Chair, Professor, Kyungnam University
Robert S. Litwak, vice president for scholars, director of international security studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Jean H. Lee, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Sang-yoon Ma, Director General of Policy Planning, MOFA; professor, Catholic University of Korea
Dean Ouellette, Professor, Kyungnam University
Wilson Center: Beyond Caricatures: Writing About the Real North Korea →
Award-winning foreign correspondents, researchers and writers on the challenges of writing about North Korea today, from getting on the ground to turning to defectors for information about daily life inside the Hermit Kingdom.
Read MoreAspen Security Forum: Peril on the 38th Parallel →
Can Kim Jong Un be stopped before he turns the peninsula, and the region, into a nuclear wasteland? Jean Lee speaks at the Aspen Security Forum.
Read MoreUMG and Korea Press Foundation: Realizing Freedom of Information in North Korea →
Korea Press Foundation and Unification Media Group are set to host an event on freedom of information in NK in honor of Human Rights Day.
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Global Education Conference
Unification Media Group: #신지은의 통일공감 13회 #진 리 Jean H. Lee (前 AP통신 서울평양 지국장) →
UCLAN Korea Conference
Korea Society: Opening Pyongyang →
Jean Lee discusses the challenges of reporting on a country considered among the world's worst for press freedom, the role her Korean-American ethnicity played in her interactions with the North Koreans, and her observations on reunification after working as a journalist on both sides of the DMZ.
Read MoreRadio NZ: The trickiest job, reporting North Korea →
East Asia Foundation: Daily life in North Korea in the Kim Jong Un Era
Daily life in North Korea in the Kim Jong Un Era
Date December 2nd, 2013
Place EAST ASIA FOUNDATION
The East Asia Foundation hosted the 21st EAF seminar on December 2nd. Ms. Jean Lee, the Associated Press’s first Pyongyang bureau chief, spoke about her time in North Korea. Ms. Lee was responsible for establishing the Associated Press’s presence. Interest regarding life as a foreign journalist in North Korea drew one of the largest crowds of the year. By the time Ms. Lee’s presentation concluded, the audience had filled the room to capacity.
Read MoreAsia Society: Interview: AP's Jean H. Lee Covers Both Koreas with Objectivity, Understanding →
AAJA: Uncovering North Korea →
"Uncovering North Korea"
New.Now.Next Media Conference at the University of Hong Kong
Jean H. Lee, Barbara Demick, Steve Herman
SXSW: Tweets from the DMZ: Social Media in North Korea →
Social media has transformed culture, communication, creativity and journalism in every nation on Earth — other than North Korea, of course. Wait — not so fast. What do we really know about social media’s role in the mysterious nation — or what role it could play in the future, in the open or underground? Get some insight and answers to your questions as Associated Press Social Media Editor Eric Carvin leads a conversation with AP Korea bureau chief Jean H. Lee, a social media-savvy journalist with firsthand expertise on the reclusive regime north of the 38th parallel.
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Leading U.S. experts and former officials to identify actionable policy steps the White House and Congress should take to address the growing threat from North Korea.