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"The New Yorker" Q&A with John Delury highlights IR/PS faculty


Delury mentions Susan Shirk's report, Stephan Haggard's book

Professor Discusses Implications of North Korwan Tests Oct 28, 2009
By Evan Osnos, The New Yorker

Is it time for another approach on North Korea? “North Korea Inside Out: The Case for Economic Engagement” is a new report by a panel of independent experts on North Korea convened by the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations and The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. The task force came to the intriguing conclusion that the time may have come for “robust engagement” with Pyongyang, even as Washington pursues targeted sanctions on the nuclear front. (In the magazine this week, Barbara Demick writes about the one of the consequences of North Korea’s economic isolation: the famine of the nineteen-nineties.) I posed some questions to John Delury, the group’s project director.

Read the interview online at The New Yorker.


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Susan Shirk is the co-chair of the North Korea Inside Out: The Case for Economic Engagement Task Force. Her report focuses on highlighting peaceful means of engaging North Korea. She also recently participated in an informal conference featuring officials from U.S. and North Korea. Two weeks ago, Shirk was featured in Newsweek.

Stephan Haggard co-authored Famine in North Korea with Marcus Noland. The book gives insight to present-day North Korea. Haggard was also recently featured in the Washington Post.