Summary:

New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winning South Korean journalist Choe Sang-hun, former State Department official Bob Carlin, and Korean Studies Institute Sejong Society postdoctoral fellow Sandra Fahy will participate in a panel discussion on media images of North Korea. This panel will be moderated by David Kang.

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New York Times correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winning South Korean journalist Choe Sang-hun, former State Department official Bob Carlin, and Korean Studies Institute Sejong Society postdoctoral fellow Sandra Fahy will participate in a panel discussion on media images of North Korea. This panel will be moderated by David Kang.

 
Sang-Hun Choe has covered stories ranging from natural disasters and North-South Korean confrontations to the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 since joining the AP bureau in Seoul in 1994. A 36-year-old native of Uljoo, in southern South Korea, he is a graduate of Seoul's Hankuk University and a veteran of the South Korean army. Before the AP, Choe was a political reporter for the English-language Korea Herald. He has been honored with a special award from the Journalists Association of Korea for his work on No Gun Ri.

Bob Carlin is a Visiting Scholar at CISAC. From both in and out of government, he has been following North Korea since 1974 and has made 25 trips there. He recently co-authored a lengthy paper to be published by the London International Institute of Strategic Studies, entitled "Politics, Economics and Security: Implications of North Korean Reform." Carlin served as senior policy advisor at the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) from 2002-2006, leading numerous delegations to the North for talks and observing developments in-country during the long trips that entailed.From 1989-2002, he was chief of the Northeast Asia Division in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State. During much of that period, he also served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Special Ambassador for talks with North Korea, and took part in all phases of US-DPRK negotiations from 1992-2000. From 1971-1989, Carlin was an analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he received the Exceptional Analyst Award from the Director of Central Intelligence.

Sandra Fahy is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California’s Korean Studies Institute, Los Angeles. Prior to this she held a post-doctoral fellowship in Paris, France at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. In 2009, she earned her PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK. Sandra Fahy conducted ethnographic research with North Koreans living in Seoul and Tokyo, who survived the 1990s famine. She applies critical discourse and linguistic analysis to the oral accounts to explore how people understood the food shortage and starvation, negotiated survival, the multiple factors that lead to individual breaking points such as out-migration, and the role of memory in destabilizing geopolitical time. Her work is published in Anthropology Today and forthcoming in Food, Culture and Society.