Reunification of the Korean peninsula is a complicated and technical conversation, which is why we brought Professor Minkyung Kim to talk about it.

Minkyung Kim is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and researches organizational communication and its impacts on community resilience and sustainability. Specifically, she studies organizations serving vulnerable populations and how they leverage and navigate communication processes like inter-organizational networks to maximize their capacity for community impact.

She grew up in South Korea and was trained as a child to spot North Korean spies. She also lived in West Germany at the fall of the Berlin Wall. Her grandfather also grew up in the same town as Kim Il Sung.

Here's a BBC interview with her grandfather, Professor Kim Hyung-suk. 

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