13 June 2012

North Korea: Geopolitical Challenges for South Korea (Video)

Posted In: History & Geopolitics

Speaking from the Korea Investment Conference, North Korea expert Brian Myers explains how the popular fallacy of a communist North Korea impedes our understanding of North-South relations. The Kim Jong Un regime espouses a radical version of the ethno-nationalism that remains the civic religion in the South as well; as a result many South Koreans consider it the “purer” state, thus emboldening the North to behave more belligerently. Myers analyzes the unsettling implications for South Korea’s security as it heads into presidential elections.

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Jennifer Curry

Jennifer Curry formerly served as managing editor of the Enterprising Investor. Previously, she was the social media manager at the New York Society of Security Analysts (NYSSA). Prior to her work at NYSSA, Curry worked as the senior project editor for a nonfiction imprint at Barnes & Noble Publishing and as an assistant editor at the H.W. Wilson Company. She is the editor of several volumes in the Reference Shelf series, and her writing has appeared in Smithsonian, IndustryWeek, Barnes & Noble Review, and other publications. Curry holds a BS in journalism and a BA in anthropology from the University of Kansas, and an MA in anthropology from Hunter College, City University of New York.