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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">How Can the Academic and Professional
Communities Engage North Korea?</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Engage Korea 2015 will take place at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social
Sciences and Humanities at the University of Cambridge on Saturday, December 12, 2015 from 9:00 to 18:00. Engage Korea is a studentdriven humanitarian and educational initiative on the DPRK that strives to be impartial, constructive and informative. Its vision
is to cultivate a global network of students, junior scholars and practitioners who are well-informed, thereby creating a sustained effort for peace-building on the Korean Peninsula.
<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">To support this vision, the organisation has previously held Engage Korea 2013 at Oxford University, provided educational support for the 2014 Student Conference on the DPRK at Harvard University, and administered an
online short course on DPRK healthcare in the summer of 2015.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-pagination: none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Engage Korea 2015 will provide a space where academics and professionals can participate
in meaningful dialogue about ways to improve the lives of the North Korean people and will feature thematic panels on Tumen Triangle development, health and culture/education.
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Anastasia Konyakhina, Research Associate, Russian Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Colin McCulloch, Professor of Management and Economics at Pyongyang University of Science and Technology</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Kee Park, External Engagement Fellow at the Korean American Medical Association</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Morten Traavik, Norwegian Director and Artist with experience in North Korean cultural engagement</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Plus representatives from DULA International, the organisation that arranged the North Korean Youth Para-Ensemble Concert Tour 2015</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In addition, junior scholars will present academic papers during discussion sessions, and there will be a screening of the 2012 documentary,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">YES, WE LOVE THIS COUNTRY!</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Engage Korea 2015 is supported by the Academy of Korean Studies and the British Korea Society.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">To ensure constructive and honest discussions, Engage Korea 2015 will be
<b>off-the-record</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">, but media enquiries may be directed to:
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Sherri L. Ter Molen</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Public Relations Manager, Engage Korea</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="mailto:commresearch@me.com"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><font color="#000080">commresearch@me.com</font></span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Enquiries regarding conference logistics should be directed to:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Robert Winstanley-Chesters</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Engage Korea 2015 Conference Director</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><a href="mailto:r.winstanley-Chesters@leeds.ac.uk"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><font color="#000080">r.winstanley-Chesters@leeds.ac.uk</font></span></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: ""; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">For more information, please visit:
<a href="http://www.engagekorea.org/"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><font color="#000080">www.engagekorea.org</font></span></a></span></p>
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