Dr Andrei Lankov is a professor at the Australian National University currently teaching (on sabattical ?) at 국민대학교 in Seoul. His resume list his main research interests as;

North Korean political and social history, with a special emphasis on the state’s formative periods (1945-1965) and the Soviet and Chinese policy toward the Korean Peninsula; the Modern Korean city and social and cultural aspects of modernization in Korea.

Last night he gave a lecture at the Royal Asiatic Society’s Correspondents Club lounge entitled, “The Death of North Korean Stalinism“. I was there with a few friends and I was most impressed.

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Spectacular is about all I suppose I can say … except to add that I am supremely ignorant and uneducated when compared to some of the genuine geniuses out there.

On Friday and Saturday this week Kyung Hee university , in commemoration of the 24th anniversary of the United Nations International Day of Peace held a round-table conference titled ‘After Ideology: the 21st Century Talks’.

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