North Korea is stable up until the day it's not... The day that it collapses, there'll be a lot of people out there who will say this was inevitable.

Victor Cha

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Victor Cha is a professor of government at Georgetown University and holds the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. He is a former director for Asian Affairs at the White House National Security Council. Ramon Pacheco Pardo is a professor of international relations at King’s College London and the KF-VUB Korea Chair at Free University of Brussels. They are the authors of Korea: A New History of South and North.

Key Highlights

• Introduction - 0:45
• Korea as a People and a Place - 2:25
• Korean War and its Aftermath - 11:44
• Democracy - 23:23
• Is Reconciliation Possible? - 40:55

Key Links

Korea: A New History of South and North by Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Victor Cha at the Center for Strategic & International Studies

Ramon Pacheco Pardo at King's College London

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