The Korea Now Podcast #7 – Steven Borowiec – ‘The Sewol Disaster – Exposing the Cracks in Korean Society’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Steven Borowiec. On the four year anniversary of the Sewol ferry disaster, they speak about the events on the day, the expanding chain of calamities that deepened the crisis, and importantly the sharp divisions, contradictions and societal hangovers that were pulled to the surface by the tragedy.

Steven Borowiec is a Seoul based journalist, who has worked for The Guardian, The Toronto Star, GlobalPost, South China Morning Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The Chicago Tribune; and is currently the deputy editor at Hankyoreh newspaper in South Korea. His work has covered Korean culture, Korean politics and Korean socio-economics. He has reported extensively on the Sewol disaster and its aftermath.

 

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The Korea Now Podcast #6 – Leszek Buszynski – ‘Negotiating with North Korea – The Six Party Talks’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Leszek Buszynski. They speak about the history of North Korea’s nuclear program and the collapse of the 1994 Agreed Framework; all leading into the events of the Six Party Talks. This is an in-depth look at the various actors, domestic influences, evolving positions, and importantly the failures of these tense multilateral negotiations.

Leszek Buszynski has been a Visiting Fellow at the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre, a Professor of International Relations at the International University of Japan, and the Director of the Research Institute of Asian Development. He is currently a Professor at the Australian National University’s College of Asia and the Pacific, and is the author of ‘Negotiating with North Korea: The Six Party Talks and the Nuclear Issue’

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The Korea Now Podcast #5 – Steven Denney – ‘Korean Nationalism’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Steven Denney. They speak about the evolving face of Korean national identity, its historical roots, the factors that have influenced its development, and the place for North Korean migrants within a new South Korean nationalism.

Steven Denney is a doctoral candidate at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, a Fellow of the Asian Institute, a senior editor at SinoNK.com, and regular contributor to The Diplomat, as well as various other platforms. His research is focussed on nationalism, identity, transitional societies, autocratic regimes, and Korean politics.

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The Korea Now Podcast #4 – Mitchell Lerner – ‘Capturing the Pueblo’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Mitchell Lerner. They speak about the 1968 capture of the USS Pueblo, an American spy ship, in international waters by North Korea. Walking through the details of the attack, the North Korean motivations, the failures of planning by the US Navy, as well as the broader historical and political significance of the incident, a fascinating story of both farce and tragedy develops

Mitchell Lerner is an Associate Professor at the Department of History and the director of the Institute for Korean Studies at Ohio State University. He won the John Lyman Award for the best work in US Naval History for his book, ‘The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy’, and is the editor of ‘A Companion to the Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson’, and ‘Looking Back at LBJ’

*** Due to internet challenges, this interview was conducted via a telephone. Any issues with sound quality are a result of this.

 

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The Korea Now Podcast #3 – John Sweeney – ‘Strange Bedfellows - Ceausescu and the IRA’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with John Sweeney. They speak about the strange cold war links between the North Korean Regime under Kim Il-sung, and both Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and the socialist branch of the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

John Sweeney is a career journalist and author. With numerous books and documentaries under his belt, John has reported from conditions of war and revolution in countries such as Algeria, Iraq, Bosnia, Chechnya and Romania. He has also produced works of investigative journalism on Scientology, Cot Death and Donald Trump. His BBC Panorama documentary and matching book on North Korea are both titled ‘North Korea Undercover’.

*** Due to an occasionally poor internet connection, sections of this interview (mostly of blank noise) have been edited out.

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The Korea Now Podcast #2 – Donald Kirk – ‘Sunshine And Beyond’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Donald Kirk. They speak about Kim Dae-Jung, the Sunshine Policy, the legacy of inter—Korean diplomacy, the prospects of future summits, and the diplomatic side-shows of the Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang.

Donald Kirk is a journalist and author who has covered conflict and human rights in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cambodia and Vietnam, amongst others. Working for the Chicago Tribune, The International Herald Tribune, The New York Times, and Forbes Asia, Donald has been named a Fulbright scholar, the Edward Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, as well as receiving an honorary Doctorate from the University of Maryland. His books on Korea include: Korea Betrayed, Kim Dae-jung and the Quest for the Nobel, Korean Crisis, Korea Witness, and Korean Dynasty.

*** Donald Kirk would like to make two small corrections to his comments. 1. When he said Kim Jong-il died in 2010, he meant to say 2011; 2. When he said the Cheonan was sunk in 2011, he meant to say 2010.

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The Korea Now Podcast #1 – Blaine Harden – ‘Spies, Pilots and Gulags’

This episode of the Korea Now podcast features an interview that Jed Lea-Henry conducted with Blaine Harden. They speak about Blaine’s three books on North Korea: ‘Escape From Camp 14’, ‘The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot’, and ‘King of Spies’; as well as broader issues concerning human rights and the Korean War.

Blaine Harden is an American journalist with over 30 years’ experience writing for The Washington Post, The New York Times and Time Magazine, amongst others. He is also a bestselling author, with books on North Korea, Africa and Columbia. He lives in Seattle.

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