Professor/Former Navy Intelligence Officer Who Recently Visited North Korea Says Rhetoric From Pyongyang Is Just That: Rhetoric
Columbus State University
Dr. Neil Englehart, an associate professor of political science at Bowling Green State University, is one of a select few who has been allowed to travel in North Korea for research. He is available to discuss the impending controversial rocket launch in that country.
As North Korea enters an 11-day period of official mourning following the death of leader Kim Jong-Il, a period of heightened uncertainty has begun in a nation already well known for its secrecy and unpredictability. Two Florida State University scholars are available to discuss and provide informed perspectives on the current situation in that country, as well as what may come next.
Sheena Chestnut Greitens, a 2011-12 fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, is available for interviews about the transition of leadership in North Korea from Kim Jong Il to his son, Kim Jong Un.
Nova Southeastern University subject matter expert Dustin Berna, Ph.D., is available to speak with media regarding the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and the impact it will have globally.
Media reports on a suspected North Korean cyber attack on South Korean bank reveal confusion and controversy about what such incidents mean in policy and legal terms, an Indiana University expert says.
A path-breaking new book about North Korea by Stephan Haggard, a UC San Diego professor of Korea-Pacific Studies, and Marcus Noland, deputy director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, concludes that North Koreans hold their government in low regard and are far more skeptical of official explanations of their misery than is generally supposed.
Recent increased tension on the Asian peninsula not only has endangered the security situation in Northeast Asia, but also whether reunification between North and South Korea will ever take place. The situation could push the United States to introduce more military resources into the region and encourage China to be a more dominant political player, according to Chris Reardon, associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire.
News organizations are reporting that about 35 government and commercial Web sites in South Korea and the United States have came under major attack in recent days. Suspected in the coordinated cyber attack is North Korea or its sympathizers. Heon Joo Jung, an Indiana University expert on Korean politics, is available to speak with the news media.
An Indiana University faculty expert is available to comment on issues related to recent news that North Korea conducted its second nuclear bomb test, that it plans to test a long-range missile and that a successor to leader Kim Jong-il has been selected, as well as other developments on the Korean peninsula.
Polls going back as far as 1993 show that the American public's support for using force against North Korea is very low when compared with past historical situations. A militant stance -- threatening or using military force against North Korea -- is likely to be a political liability rather than a political asset.
Expect the Bush administration to continue to practice unilateral "hardball" foreign policy when dealing with North Korea according to an Iowa State University political scientist who studied the administration's foreign policy decisions for a presentation during the U.S. Foreign Policy Conference at the University of Leicester in England last month.
Physicists with technologies to identify furtive nuclear tests and geophysicists who know about nuclear test detection via seismology are available for comment.
Thomas Kim, Ph.D., professor of politics and international relations at Scripps College in Claremont, CA, is available for comment on North Korea's nuclear testing and how the U.S. should proceed in its relations with North Korea.
Chris Reardon, associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, is available to discuss the politics of party elites in North Korea, China and other East Asia countries in light of the nuclear standoff involving North Korea. Reardon is an expert in Chinese foreign economic policy, with special emphasis on elite politics and development strategies.
North Korea's nuclear test represents the final failure of American attempts going back to 1991 to keep North Korea within the non-proliferation regime. Neither President Clinton nor President Bush understand their enemy in Pyongyang. We stumbled into a political, cultural and historical thicket in 1945 when we divided Korea, North Korea was our enemy then and remains so today.
Three leading University of California, San Diego authorities on North Korea and Asia will participate in a panel discussion to consider the likely impact on the United States, and the world, of the recent North Korean nuclear weapons test. The event will be held on (Wednesday) Oct. 11, at 6 p.m., at the Weaver Center of the Institute of the Americas on the UCSD campus. The public is invited and press coverage is encouraged.
North Korea's test of a nuclear weapon raises a serious challenge to the international community. Experts from the University of California, San Diego are available for comment on the impact of the test, the likely responses from key players, and the consequences for North Korea's own economic and political predicament.
North Korea's potential missile test may be an experimental satellite launch -- or the whole thing could be a bluff, said a Gettysburg College physics professor who served on the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency from 1994 to 1995 and the Bureau of Nonproliferation at the Department of State from 2000 to 2001.
Scholars are completing what is believed to be the first broadly international academic conference ever to be held on North Korean soil. The topic is the long-stalled Six-Party talks on nuclear arms.
North Korea's recent test firing of a short-ranged missile signals its willingness to create a crisis situation that would force the United States into bilateral negotiations, according to Gettysburg College Physics Prof. Peter Pella, who also worked for the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Nonproliferation.