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North Korea: Human rights, security and beyond</h1>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3">Please join Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics for a panel discussion involving representatives of the Republic of Korea’s Institute for National Unification (KINU), and leading UK Korea specialists. The
discussion will consider the human rights’ situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the wider issue of how international law might be used to address the strategic implications of North Korea’s military cooperation with Russia.</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3">Date and Time: November 20, 10am to 12pm</font></span></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3">Location: Bradfield Room, Darwin College, Cambridge, CB4 0GA</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3"><b>MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:</b></font></span></div>
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<div><strong style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">Kim Chun-Sig – President of KINU</font></strong></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3">Kim Chun-Sig was Emeritus Professor at Sehan University (2022-2023), Visiting Professor at Ewha Womans University (2019-2020), Senior Researcher at The Institute for Peace and Unification Studies of
Seoul National University (2013-2016), Vice Minister of Unification (2011-2013), Director General of Policy for Ministry of Unification, Administrative Officer of Presidential Secretariat, Director of Inter-Korean Exchange and Cooperation Bureau, Director
of Unification Policy Office, Ministry of Unification (1985-2011), Forum Leader of Korean Council for Reconciliation and Cooperation (2016-2018) and Chairman of the Unitiative Inc. Association (2017-2023).</font></span></div>
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<div><strong style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">Lee Kyu-Chang – Director of Human Rights Research Division</font></strong></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3">Kyu-Chang Lee is a Director/ Senior Research Fellow at KINU. His main research areas are the South and North Korean Legal Systems, Unification Law, and North Korean Human Rights. He received a Ph.D.
in law from Korea University.</font></span></div>
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<div><strong style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">Kim Soo-Am – Emeritus Research Fellow</font></strong></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3">Soo-Am Kim is an Emeritus Research Fellow at KINU. His main research areas are North Korean human rights, humanitarian assistance toward North Korea, humanitarian issues including separated families,
and exchange and cooperation between the two Koreas. He received a Ph.D in political science from Seoul National University and he served as president of the Korean Association of North Korean Studies in 2020.</font></span></div>
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<div><strong style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">Lee Keum-Soon – Emeritus Research Fellow</font></strong></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3">Dr. Lee is an Emeritus research fellow at the Human Rights Research Division, KINU. She has worked on humanitarian assistance to North Korea, human rights in North Korea, and inter-Korean humanitarian
affairs. Previously, she served as the chairperson of the National Committee for the Compensation of the Victims of North Korean Abduction (2007-2009), Assistant Minister for Unification Education at the Ministry of Unification (2015-2017), and President of
the Centre for North Korean Human Rights Records, MOU (2018-2020), Ministry of Unification.</font></span></div>
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<div><strong style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">Choi Gyubin – Research Fellow</font></strong></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3">Gyubin Choi is a Research Fellow at KINU. His main research areas are Sustainable Development, Development Cooperation for North Korea, and inter-Korean relations. He received a Ph.D. in Politics and
International Studies from the University of Leeds.</font></span></div>
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<div><span style="text-transform: uppercase; color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><b><font size="3">MORE ABOUT THE RESPONDENTS:</font></b></span></div>
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<div><strong style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">Amb. (Ret.) John Everard</font></strong></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3">John Everard served in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office for twenty-seven years, working in Austria, Bosnia, Chile, and China (twice). He served as Ambassador three times, in Belarus, Uruguay
and lastly in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea from 2006-2008. After his retirement from the diplomatic service in 2008 he was appointed Pantech Fellow at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University from 2010-2011. He was then
appointed as Coordinator of the United Nations Security Council Panel of Experts established pursuant to Security Council Resolution 1874 (dealing with sanctions on the DPRK). He withdrew from that position in November 2012 and has since written extensively
for the media, broadcast and lectured, both on Korean issues and on international affairs generally. He published a book “Only Beautiful, Please” in 2012 that described his experiences of living and working in the DPRK and discussed some of the challenges
presented by that country.</font></span></div>
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<div><strong style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">Professor Ramon Pacheco Pardo (Kings College, London)</font></strong></div>
<div><font size="3"><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">Ramon Pacheco Pardo is Professor of International Relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at the Brussels School of Governance of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He is also King’s Regional
Envoy for East and South East Asia, helping to shape and implement the university’s strategy for the region. </span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">Professor Pacheco Pardo is also Adjunct Fellow (Non-Resident) with the Korea Chair at CSIS, Scientific
Council Member at Elcano Royal Institute and Committee Member at CSCAP EU. He has held visiting positions at Korea University, the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Melbourne University. </span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">His publications
include the books</span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"> </span><em style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;">Korea: A New History of South & North </em><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">(Yale University Press, 2023; with Victor Cha),</span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"> </span><em style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;">South
Korea’s Grand Strategy: Making Its Own Destiny </em><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">(Columbia University Press, 2023),</span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"> </span><em style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;">Shrimp to Whale: South
Korea from the Forgotten War to K-Pop</em><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"> (Hurst and Oxford University Press, 2022) and</span><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"> </span><em style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;">North Korea-US Relations
from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un </em><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);">(Routledge, 2019).</span></font></div>
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<div><strong style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">Professor Kevin Gray (University of Sussex)</font></strong></div>
<div><font size="3">Professor Kevin Gray is Professor of International Relations at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. His research interests relate to the political economy of development, with a regional focus on East Asia.
He has researched and published widely on the region and, in particular, on the political economy of both North and South Korea. Most recently, he is co-author (with Jong-Woon Lee) of “North Korea and the Geopolitics of Development” (2021). His research has
been published in outlets such as the Review of International Political Economy, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Critical Asian Studies, The Pacific Review, North Korean Review, Globalizations, New Political Economy, Third World Quarterly and New Left Review.</font></div>
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<div><strong style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">John Nilsson-Wright</font></strong></div>
<div><span style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64);"><font size="3">John Nilsson-Wright (formerly Swenson-Wright) is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES) at the University of Cambridge and an Official Fellow at Darwin College.
He is the Programme Head for the Japan and Koreas Programme at the Centre for Geopolitics.</font></span></div>
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<div><strong style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="3">This event is sponsored by the Korea National Institute of Unification (KINU) and the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the UK.</font></strong></div>
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