Whither North Korea?
Subtitle:
A Symposium at the University of Pittsburgh
Event Status:
As Scheduled
Date:
Wed, 03/14/2012 - 18:00 to 20:00
During the 17-year rule of Kim Jong-Il, North Korea became a dictatorship armed to the teeth but unable to feed its own people without foreign aid. But with the death of Kim Jong-Il on December 17th, foreign policy experts across the globe have wondered aloud what the future holds for this nuclear power. “North Korea as we know it is over,” a Korea specialist who served in the second Bush administration confidently asserted in the New York Times, a mere two days after Kim died. North Korea, the last Stalinist state on Earth, became the latest country to join the nuclear club in 20006.
Location:
Frick Fine Arts 125
Contact Person:
Rachel Jacobson
Contact Email:
rej16@pitt.edu
