KEI Communications Director Jenna Gibson, host of Korean Kontext, recently interviewed Justice Michael Kirby who led the United Nations’ Commission of Inquiry on human rights in North Korea. The following is a partial transcript of that conversation.

Commentators have sometimes hypothesized that one of its positive effects of the COI Report could be that North Korean prison officials moderate some of their brutality out of fear of eventually being held accountable. We have now heard that this may be happening in reality.

Korea has one of the world’s most expansive network of free trade agreements. In this post we explore how U.S.-Korea trade has fared in relations to Korea’s other FTA partners.

To what extent should financial losses coinciding with North Korean provocations be considered as wholly isolated from market trends or at least marginally interconnected?

Five books that look at the human face of North Koreans.

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