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<div>Is it possible to post the news of this book on the Korean Studies list? <br></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br></div><div><br></div><div><span><strong>Challenges and difficulties of North Korean labour export is a topic widely covered by medias.</strong></span></div><div><span><strong><br></strong></span></div><div><span><strong>Therefore, We are pleased to inform you about the book launch entitled </strong><i>A statistical analysis of the North Korean overseas laborers in Poland during the period 2000-2017: Current Status and Prospects </i><b>written by Nicolas Levi, an assistant professor at the <span>Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. This book is the 7th of Nicolas Levi. Previous books were published in Polish. Below two reviews of this book related to the situation of North Korean laborers in Poland</span></b></span><b>.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div>Review 1:</div><div><span>
<p class="ydp94368ccMsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU">Nicolas Levi’s statistical study on North
Korean migrant workers in Poland is extremely useful for scholars and
policy-makers as it provides valuable information on the dynamics of
socio-economic change in North Korea between 2000 and 2017. This study reflects
the changes which North Korean economy underwent since July 2002, when market
liberalisation was announced by Pyongyang. The statistical method chosen by the
author objectively confirms the qualitative and quantitative change of labour
export volume and composition after 2013, when the Byungjin (Parallel
Development) Line was adopted by North Korea. Nicolas Levi’s advice to the
Polish government to implement and establish some “Migrant laborers’ assistance
centres” is very sensible and dwells on the experience of South Korean
organisations, which successfully facilitated the export of South Korean labour
overseas since 1960s. The findings of this report demonstrate the great
difficulties, which North Korean labour export is facing in Poland (and
elsewhere) since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution
2371, which bans countries from importing additional North Korean laborers. Levi’s
seminal work may be helpful for better understanding of the economic benefit of
hard-working and disciplines labour import from North Korea and even prompt the
revocation of Polish government’s decision to repatriate all North Korean
laborers by end of 2019.<span> </span></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:"맑은 고딕";mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-AU;mso-fareast-language:KO;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-AU">Leonid
Petrov graduated from the Department of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg State
University in 1994, where he majored in Korean History and Language. In
1994-1996, he worked as interpreter for the South Korean National Soccer Team
and participated in the 26th Olympic Games in Atlanta. In 1996-2002, Leonid
Petrov worked on a doctoral thesis "Socio-economic School and the
Formation of North Korean Official Historiography" at the Australian
National University. Between 2003 and 2005, Dr. Petrov conducted post-doctoral
research at the Academy of Korean Studies in Seongnam and taught Korean History
at the Intercultural Institute of California in San Francisco. In 2006-2007, he
was Chair of Korean Studies at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po)
in Paris. Between 2009 and 2012, Dr. Petrov taught Korean History and Language
at the University of Sydney. Currently, he teaches Cross-Cultural Management,
Strategic Intelligence and other subjects at the International College of
Management in Sydney (ICMS). Starting from 2007, Dr. Petrov has been involved
in a number of projects sponsored by the Australian Research Council.</span>
</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Review 2: <br></div><div><br></div><div><span><p class="ydp9e47abe3MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="DE">Author: Charles A. von Denkowski<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="ydp9e47abe3MsoFootnoteReference"><span><span class="ydp9e47abe3MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="DE">[1]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p></span><span><p class="ydp9e47abe3MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%" lang="DE"> </span></p></span><span></span><span>
<p class="ydp9e47abe3MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"><span> </span><span> </span></span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Berlin, April 19, 2018</span></p>
<p class="ydp9e47abe3MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:70.9pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">The empirical
study on North Korean laborers in Poland by Nicolas Levi a landmark event for the
small but growing empirical literature on Pyongyang’s illicit economic
activities. The authors collected data regarding North Korea’s laborers who had
worked in Poland between 2010 and 2017. In particular, their study has been
based on reliable sources of raw data which the authors among other sources retrieved
from Polish government agencies. The cornerstone of the raw data consists of
applications for working permits and of the number of permits issued to North
Koreans for laboring in Poland. Based on a statistical methodology, Levi analyze
patterns, characteristics and the <i>modus operandi</i> of some of the North Korean
state entities which have been active in Poland. Moreover, they identify some
transit states and some supply chains of the labor. Additionally, the authors
focus its spatial distribution within Poland by a space-geographical approach
to understand the patterns of the labor. Their study also examines gender
aspects in occupational distributions among the laborers and the role of
economic sanctions. In sum, the authors publish an essential empirical study on
Pyongyang’s export of labor. Due to its methodology’s quality Nicolas Levi publication
will develop a strong impact on the research of Pyongyang’s illicit economic
activities. </span></p>
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<p class="ydp9e47abe3MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align:justify"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="ydp9e47abe3MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#00B050" lang="DE"><span><span class="ydp9e47abe3MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri;mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;color:#00B050;mso-ansi-language:DE;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="DE">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#00B050;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="DE"> </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#00B050;mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Charles A. von
Denkowski holds a German public administration diploma (Bachelor Level, Faculty
of Police Management, Hamburg University of Applied Public Management), a
French Diplome d Universite de Troixieme Cycle (International Nuclear Law,
Faculte de Droit, Universite de Montpellier/France) and a German M.A.
(Criminology and Police Science, Faculty of Law, Ruhr-University Bochum/Germany).
Currently, he is preparing the defense of his empirical and juridical criminological
doctoral thesis (Ph.D. in German law, Faculty of Law, Ruhr-University
Bochum/Germany) that covers links between mankind crimes and the policing of
the North Korean state security agency. Moreover, Charles A. <span> </span>von Denkowski serves as a pro bono-advisor to
the South Korean <i>Transitional Justice
Working Group </i>(2015), to the German NGO <i>Saram
– Für Menschen in Nordkorea </i>(2017) and as a freelancer journalist for <i>North Korea Reform Radio</i> (2016). </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"></span></p>
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</span></div><div><span><div><br></div></span><div><b><span><span>Publishing House contact: wydawnictwo.asiancentury@gmail.com</span><br></span></b></div><div><b><span><br></span></b></div><div><b><span>Contact with the author: nicolas_levi@yahoo.fr<br></span></b></div><div><br><span></span></div></div><div>Thanks you in advance</div><div><br></div><div>Nicolas Levi</div><div>Assistant Professor - Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences<br></div><div><br></div>
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<div><b>De :</b> Robert Winstanley-Chesters <R.Winstanley-Chesters@leeds.ac.uk></div><div><b>À :</b> koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com <koreanstudies@koreanstudies.com></div><div><b>Envoyé :</b> mercredi 9 mai 2018 à 00:31:31 UTC+2</div><div><b>Objet :</b> [KS] Visit of Professor Gavan McCormack to the University of Leeds, 29th May, 2018</div><div><br></div>
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<p class="ydpae886818yiv8230248932MsoNormal">We are pleased to invite you to the <b>
University of Leeds, School of History</b> for a presentation and book launch by <b>
Emeritus Professor Gavan McCormack (Australian National University).</b></p>
<p class="ydpae886818yiv8230248932MsoNormal"><b>Date 29<sup>th</sup> May, 2018, 6pm-8pm</b></p>
<p class="ydpae886818yiv8230248932MsoNormal"><b>Location: Grant Room (3.11), Michael Sadler Building, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS29JT, United Kingdom</b></p>
<p class="ydpae886818yiv8230248932MsoNormal">We are delighted to be welcoming Professor Gavan McCormack to the University of Leeds on the 29<sup>th</sup> of May, 2018 for his thoughts on recent matters on the Korean Peninsula and elsewhere. Professor McCormack has been one of the
foremost scholars of power and politics in East Asia for many decades now, producing a voluminous body of work on North Korea, Okinawa, Japan and Chinese borderland issues. Professor McCormack has also been a vital part of the output and infrastructure of
the award winning online journal <i>The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus</i>. Along his thoughts current issues this event will serve as one of the launch events for the second edition of
<i>Resistant Islands: Okinawa Confronts Japan and the United States</i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:107%;">
</span>(<a href="https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442215634/Resistant-Islands-Okinawa-Confronts-Japan-and-the-United-States-Second-Edition" id="ydpae886818yiv8230248932LPlnk42339" class="ydpae886818yiv8230248932OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442215634/Resistant-Islands-Okinawa-Confronts-Japan-and-the-United-States-Second-Edition</a>).
Leeds and its surroundings are themselves something of a colonised island in the military-security nexus of our age, loomed over by the technologies of global surveillance represented by RAF Menwith Hill, a base of the US National Security Agency since 1966
featured frequently in the revelations from Edward Snowden, its radomes, satellite dishes and other complicated technologies long contested by local and national campaigns. The University of Leeds was also Gavan’s institutional home between 1971 and 1977 where
he taught Chinese history in the wake of Owen Lattimore, so it will be something of a homecoming as well. Along with this event in Leeds, Gavan will also be launching another book
<i>The State of the Japanese State - Contested Identity, Direction, and Role</i>, including a fearless critique of Abe’s ‘rampant state’ for Renaissance Books (<a href="http://www.renaissancebooks.co.uk/Catalogue/123-/The-State-of-the-Japanese-State-Contested-Identity-Direction-and-Role" id="ydpae886818yiv8230248932LPlnk127537" class="ydpae886818yiv8230248932OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.renaissancebooks.co.uk/Catalogue/123-/The-State-of-the-Japanese-State-Contested-Identity-Direction-and-Role</a>)
at Daiwa House, London on the 5<sup>th</sup> of June. Professor McCormack’s recent work has had the rare honour of publication in all three primary East Asian languages. There can therefore be few scholars alive today better capable of unpicking the many historical,
political and cultural threads of power and resistance in the East Asia of our present I invite all who are interested therefore to join our resistant island at the University of Leeds on the 29<sup>th</sup> of May, 2018.
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<p class="ydpae886818yiv8230248932MsoNormal"><b>For more information please contact:</b></p>
<p class="ydpae886818yiv8230248932MsoNormal">Dr Robert Winstanley-Chesters, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies (East Asian Studies), University of Leeds –
<b>r.winstanley-chesters@leeds.ac.uk</b> </p>
<p class="ydpae886818yiv8230248932MsoNormal">For those interested in Professor McCormack’s work from a more political perspective we have arranged a meeting earlier on the 29<sup>th</sup> of May in a town nearby Leeds with activists engaged in countering or contesting military, security
and colonising power in a wider sense. If you would like to attend this smaller and non-public event please contact Dr Robert Winstanley-Chesters directly.</p>
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