‘Technology, Security, and Regime Survival in North Korea’
While the North Korean regime continues to expand its nuclear weapons program to secure its regime legitimacy and survival, the North Korean people are losing their faith in the government. Drawing from her recently published book, North Korea’s Hidden Revolution: How the Information Underground is Transforming a Closed Society (Yale University Press 2016), Jieun Baek will discuss how outside information and media flows covertly into North Korea and how this phenomenon creates fault lines in the country’s attempts to seal its informational borders. She will also discuss the country’s growing cyber capabilities and its digital response to the influx of foreign information.

Jieun Baek is a doctoral candidate in Public Policy, researching first movers of dissent in Myanmar. Previously, she was a research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. Baek also worked at Google, where, among other roles, she served as Google Ideas’ North Korea expert. She received her bachelor’s in Government and master’s degrees in Public Policy from Harvard.

All are welcome. Warm lunch will be provided at 12.15pm. Places are limited.
Date: 8 November 2017, 12:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2017)
Venue: Manor Road Building, Manor Road OX1 3UQ
Venue Details: Seminar room A
Speaker: Jieun Baek (University of Oxford)
Organising department: Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR)
Organiser: Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: ctga-admin@politics.ox.ac.uk
Host: Dr Lucas Kello (University of Oxford)
Part of: Centre for Technology and Global Affairs
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Booking required?: Required
Booking email: ctga-admin@politics.ox.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editors: James Baldwin, Margo Kirk, Barnaby King