Out now in Open Access: Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings & her collaborators examine how insights from the transitional justice literature can be applied to North Korea, where the political system prevents grassroots, participatory approaches to accountability, truth-telling, commemoration and reconciliation.

A thoughtful piece on the politics of North Korean human rights inside South Korea - a small part of an important dynamic that is not well understood outside Korea.

My latest on the escalating crisis in the North Korean human rights community: a Congressional Briefing paper for the National Bureau of Asian Research www.nbr.org/publication/...

It seems I've also been placed on leave, just like the rest of my VOA colleagues. Truth is, I can't know for sure, because when I woke up this morning in Seoul, I'd already been locked out of all VOA-related systems and accounts.

Some of my thoughts on recent NED cuts and the implication for the North Korean human rights movement theconversation.com/another-us-f...

“It’s by far the biggest crisis facing NGOs working on [North Korean human rights] since the start of the movement in the 1990s" - @sokeel.bsky.social of Liberty in North Korea (LiNK) www.voanews.com/a/north-kore...

Nice to be back attending events for 2025, with an excellent @lowyinstitute.bsky.social panel at the State Library of Victoria.

Our Officer-at-Large created this starter pack for people working on foreign policy in general. If you'd like to be added let us know :) 👇

Why are key DC think tanks being so restrained about Yoon's martial law declaration? Despite championing "freedom" 39 times in a recent speech, Yoon's decision marked a disturbing trend. But the response from key players has been strikingly muted. A 🧵 koreapro.org/2024/12/yoo...

Wrote this last night in the heat of the situation... two hours later, Yoon u-turned and backed down on his martial law gambit. Some updates on what this means via 🧵 form... www.nknews.org/pro/what-yoo...

Things already starting to move in response to Yoon's failed martial law attempt: The KCTU, one of South Korea's biggest unions, has declared an “indefinite general strike” until Yoon resigns. They also plan a major rally in downtown Seoul early Wednesday. www.ytn.co.kr/_ln/0103_202...