PBS, 1st July 2009 – In the past decade, up to 100,000 defectors have crossed the waters of the Tumen and Yalu Rivers into northeast China to escape from North Korea, the world’s last closed …
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VOA News (6 August 2009) – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton made a surprise visit to North Korea and met its reclusive leader on Tuesday to win the freedom for two jailed American journalists. Though …
VOA News (5 August 2009) – Two U.S. journalists, held for nearly five months in North Korea, are back in the United States, after former President Bill Clinton secured their release. VOA’s Carolyn Presutti brings …
Daily NK, Seoul, 29 July 2009 – The grave of the late Sung Hye Rim, located in an unassuming suburb of Moscow, has been revealed for the first time by South Korean daily newspaper the …
Cutting Edge News, Joseph K. Grieboski (27 July 2009) – A 33-year-old Christian mother of three, Ri Hyon Ok, was publicly executed on June 16 by the North Korean regime for the crime of distributing …
Chosun Ilbo, South Korea (27 July 2009) – North Korea’s first fast-food restaurant selling hamburgers and waffles has opened in the center of Pyongyang. Although there are hamburger joints in North Korea, this is the …
JoongAng Daily, South Korea (21 July 2009) – North Korean trade still relies heavily on commodities, according to data from the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency yesterday, with minerals turning out to be the largest export …
AP, South Korea (18 July 2009) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il’s teenage grandson was seen at a concert given by one of South Korea’s biggest pop stars, singing along in the crowd, a …
VOA News, South Korea (17 July 2009) – South Korea is coping with an ever-increasing influx of North Korean refugees – people who took enormous risks and endured intense suffering to escape their homeland. …
“The computer mapping tool, Google Earth, is being used to build a database about one of the world’s most secretive nations. The North Korean version of the online satellite map has been created by a …
LA Times, 16 July 2009 – Charles Robert Jenkins was an Army sergeant when he sneaked across the DMZ in 1965. Allowed to leave the North in 2004, he lives on a Japanese island with …
Thursday, November 19, 2009
1:00 – 3:00 PM
108N – North House
Munk Centre for International Studies
1 Devonshire Place, Toronto
Speaker: Steven Lee, Department of History, University of British Columbia
The American occupation of Korea between 1945 and 1948 has …
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