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SUMMARY:What Makes North Korea Tick? - Joshua Karton
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CONTACT:Miss Clare Buckley
DESCRIPTION:North Korea is constantly in the news\, yet few know anything 
 about the "hermit kingdom"\; it is the most oppressive society on Earth an
 d has suffered terrible famines\, yet there has been no hint of a revoluti
 on\; it is relatively small and weak\, yet constantly strikes a belligeren
 t posture. This talk provides an introduction to the extreme ideology and 
 Orwellian methods of social control that make North Korea tick.\n\nJoshua 
 is a PhD candidate at Pembroke College Cambridge. A graduate of Yale and C
 olumbia Law School\, he wrote his undergraduate dissertation on North Kore
 an official ideology and worked at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing on Nort
 h Korea-related issues. While at the embassy\, he co-wrote the first versi
 on of a primer on North Korea still given to Canadian diplomats assigned t
 o work in the region. Now a  ommercial lawyer\, his PhD work focuses on th
 e  esolution of international business disputes but he has maintained an a
 mateur interest in North Korea in particular and East Asian politics in ge
 neral.
LOCATION:Nihon Room\, Pembroke College
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