
Joint Presentation by Christine Hong and Gregory Elich
Christine Hong – Manifestations of Unending War: Korea
Gregory Elich – Yoon’s Project to Reshape South Korea
Christine Hong’s marvelous book, A Violent Peace: Race, U.S. Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific, arrives at a time when Washington’s Indo Pacific Strategy is driving U.S. political, economic, and military confrontation in the Asia-Pacific, as the culmination of a long process that began in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War.
Read More »Interview with Hyun Lee, Tim Beal, Christine Hong, and Gregory Elich
Trump yesterday agreed to talks with Democratic People’s Republic of Korea leader Kim Jog-Un. This comes quickly after DPRK announced early this week that they’re willing to freeze their nuclear program for talks with the US.
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“Bomb North Korea before it’s too late” was the title of a recent New York Times op-ed. As the drumbeat of war crescendos on the Korean peninsula, we bring together leading experts and activists to discuss what’s really happening – from the failure of the past twenty years of denuclearization talks, to the deleterious impact of decades of sanctions on the people of North Korea.
On WBAI Asia-Pacific Forum – Hyun Lee, with Christine Hong, Tim Shorrock, and Gregory Elich
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