The North Korean Diaspora in Northeast Asia

Kissinger Institute on China and the United States
Asia Program

North Koreans living abroad face more than the usual difficulties of expatriate individuals and communities. What are the special circumstances and challenges to integration that North Koreans living in South Korea face? How have refugees from the political oppression and starvation of the North fared when they have fled across the border to China? What is the status of North Korean associations in Japan? Do any or all of these groups have any broader significance for the societies in which they now reside? On February 15, the Asia Program, in association with the North Korea International Documentation Project and the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States, hosted an event to examine these questions.

Panelists: Apichai Shipper, Hazel Smith, Suzanne Scholte