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Join us on Thursday, March 16 from Noon to 1:30 p.m. ET for “A 21st century gulag state: the Kim family’s North Korea” with author and scholar Dr. Katy Oh.
North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction frequently make international headlines. In contrast, the almost total lack of political rights granted to the North Korean people gets little attention. The Kim regime’s political prison camps, in which millions of people have suffered and died, get even less.
Granted, even the leaders of the world’s greatest powers have been unable to curtail or eliminate the Kim regime’s nuclear and missile programs, much less soften its human rights policies. But perhaps the two problems are not entirely separate. Based on a lifetime of research on North Korea, Katy Oh offers her observations on North Korea’s politics and society in the digital 21st Century.
Dr. Kongdan (Katy) Oh is an independent scholar. She was formerly a Senior Asia Specialist at the Institute for Defense Analyses (1997-2021), a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution (1997-2016), and a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation (1987-1995). She has taught courses at the University of California, San Diego, George Washington University, and the University of Maryland Global Campus in Asia.
Following her most recent book, North Korea in a Nutshell: A Contemporary Overview (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021), her Korean-language memoir was published in June 2022.
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