Korean Unification Would Bring Great Costs, Opportunity: Peter Beck Despite some similarities to East and West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the unification of North and South Korea would be an unprecedented financial and social challenge, according to Peter Beck, former executive director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and current research fellow at .. (Jan 08, 2010 08:04 AM) In a ¡®G20 Era,¡¯ Korea takes the Helm: Colin Bradford on Korea¡¯s Role in 2010 As the Republic of Korea gears up to become chair of the G20—the international committee that replaced the G8 as the world¡¯s global economic steering body—in 2010, it will also be the first non-Western country to host a summit meeting of the group next November, following on the heels of those in Washington, London,.. (Oct 23, 2009 05:32 PM) A New Solution for an Old Divide: Paul Chamberlin on ¡°One Korea¡± Veteran Korea watcher Paul Chamberlin says its time to start imagining a different fate for Korea than the familiar and seemingly intractable negotiations and antagonism that have characterized interaction with the peninsula¡¯s Northern half in recent years. Speaking at the Korean Embassy¡¯s KORUS House on October 7, Chamber.. (Oct 09, 2009 10:30 AM) Clearly Remarkable: Grainy 1896 Recordings of Korean Music Tell a Unique Story Although it¡¯s easy to pinpoint when and where the earliest known Korean music recordings were made—on July 24, 1896 in a home on Carroll Street in Washington D.C., under the current Madison Building of the Library of Congress—it¡¯s more difficult to state how unlikely it is that they were made at all. Fortunatel.. (Aug 21, 2009 05:22 PM) U.S. National Endowment for Democracy Chief Sees North Korea Progress, thanks to Grantees in South Korea In the early 1990s, a meeting at the National Endowment for Democracy was held with top board members and President Carl Gershman. The question was raised, ¡°How can you get into North Korea?¡± The answer, which came several years later, was through South Korea. The NED, a U.S. congressionally-funded private organization tha.. (Jul 15, 2009 02:57 PM)

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