| 31st Jan 2011 4.00-5.30 |
North Korea: China's Coming Takeover, Aidan Foster-Carter, Universit of Leeds |
2D1, Social Sciences Complex, Univeristy of Bristol |
NORTH KOREA: CHINA'S COMING TAKEOVER:
Synopsis: The confirmation of Kim Jong-il's third son, Kim Jong-eun, as his ailing father's chosen successor, by no means guarantees a stable future: either for him or for the peculiar state he is now set to rule.The young Kim faces urgent policy choices: nuclear disarmament?; letting market forces rip?; and can the DPRK retain its much-prized independence (juche)?This talk will argue that the Kims' old game of militant mendicancy is finally up. To survive, the DPRK now needs a protector while it undertakes a delicate and long-overdue transition. Forget reunification, however. The North does not want to be swallowed, nor the South to digest it. That leaves only China with the means and motive to step in. North Korea's future is as a pliant client of Beijing.
Profile: Aidan Foster-Carter is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at the University of Leeds. He has followed Korean affairs for over 40 years and is now an independent Korea analyst and consultant: writing, lecturing and broadcasting worldwide. He writes regularly on Korea for, among others, the Economist Intelligence Unit, Jane’s and Oxford Analytica. A regular visitor to both Koreas, his ambitions are to read more Korean lyric poetry, and to travel by train from Pusan to Paris.
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This audio file starts with a welcome from Professor Jeffey Henderson (Co-Director of CEAS) who introduces Aidan Foster Carter - This Lecture was sponsored by the CEAS VC Initiative Fund
