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SUMMARY:The Origins of North Korea’s Self-Imposed Isolation at the End o
 f the Cold War - Dr Peter Han\, FAMES\, Associate member\, Darwin College
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:North Korea’s survival strategy at the end of the Cold War c
 an best be understood as a deliberate rejection of political and economic 
 reforms and a turn toward self-imposed isolation. While much scholarship h
 as examined the global transformations marking the Cold War’s end\, comp
 aratively little attention has been paid to North Korea’s internal resis
 tance to change and pursuit of isolation. With an increasing number of new
 ly available sources from archives around the world\, it is now possible t
 o offer a fresh interpretation of when\, why\, and how the North Korean re
 gime resisted reform during the final decade of the Cold War. In this lunc
 htime seminar\, I will discuss some images that led me to hypothesise that
  North Korea had already begun turning away from reform and opening in the
  mid-1980s—well before the Tiananmen Square protests\, unrest in the Eas
 tern bloc\, and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
LOCATION:Richard King room\, Darwin College
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