The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/north_korea/)
Experts on North Korea diverged over whether a denuclearized Korean Peninsula is achievable through negotiations between the Trump administration and Kim Jong Un’s government in a debate on Monday night.
Students analyzed the underlying conflict driving the Cuban Missile Crisis and debated which model of mediation would best resolve “the closest time the world has come to nuclear war.”
“Cornell at that time was not in good shape,” he said in a 2015 oral history interview. “There were the big riots, there were guns on campus, black students had occupied Straight Hall. It was really in crisis.”
At a crucial time in North Korea’s political climate and humanitarian crisis, Jung-Hoon Lee, the South Korean Ambassador for North Korean Human Rights, and Yosep Paek, North Korean refugee, spoke to Cornell students on Friday.
Before he turned 18, Austin Hyeon had been in five prisons in four different countries — not because he had committed a crime, but because of his identity and his country of origin: North Korea.
There is calm in Northeast Asia. But it is an uncertain calm. The “hermit kingdom” of North Korea remains as reclusive, impoverished and repressive as ever, constituting a potential threat to the region–either through conflict or collapse. The fragility of the country was emphasized over the past couple of weeks with the widely circulating rumors concerning health problems of the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-il.