Watching North Korea

North Korea is a frequent visitor to the news agenda, but yet we know very little about what goes on in the heart of the world’s most secretive state. How do we find out about what Pyongyang is thinking? What are they telling us, and – more importantly – what are they hiding from the outside world? And how can we handle Kim Jong-un from what little information we can freely access?

Journalist and North Korea Watcher Alistair Coleman will be talking about the country with the worst human rights record in the world, and asking how much do we really know about North Korea?

 

About Alistair:

Alistair has worked at BBC Monitoring for over 25 years, part of the World Service which watches and analyses the world’s open source media. Starting his career as a technician, he specialises in studying media behaviour in North Korea for significant changes in tone that could betray changes in policy.

Alistair is a multiple award-winning blogger who enjoys questioning extremism, idiocy and dubious claims. When not obsessed by North Korea, he’s particularly interested in political blow-hards, religion, stage psychics, homeopaths and quackery.

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