KCF appoints new leadership
We reported last year on the death of Rev. Kang Yong Sop, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Korean Christian Federation (KCF), the only officially authorized Protestant church body in North...
View ArticleTime to Address North Korea’s Prison Labor Camps, by Roberta Cohen
[CanKor Brain Trust member Roberta Cohen is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. She is a specialist in human rights, humanitarian, and refugee issues and a...
View ArticleRolling Reforms: Reflections on Visits to Kim Jong Un’s North Korea, by...
[On visits to North Korea since Kim Jong Un came to power, CanKor Brain Trust member Rudiger Frank has seen growing evidence of a more diverse and cash-based economy. These signs of creeping reform are...
View ArticleFive Myths About North Korea, by Joel S. Wit & Jenny Town
[This article appeared in the 29 March 2013 edition of The Atlantic Monthly. Joel S. Wit is a visiting fellow with the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and...
View ArticleSwiss mark 60 years of military presence in Korea
[The most sober account of the 60th Anniversary of the Korean Armistice Agreement that we have found comes – appropriately – from the International Service of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. We...
View ArticleWhat Works Best? by Erich Weingartner
There is a simple question I am often asked when speaking about humanitarian assistance: What works best with the DPRK? Simple questions don’t always result in simple answers, and when it comes to the...
View ArticleThe End (of CanKor) is at Hand
[In order to bring up-to-date our website readers who are not CanKor Report subscribers, we are posting the introductions of the last three issues for your information. Here follows the introduction to...
View ArticleThe Countdown is On
[In order to bring up-to-date our website readers who are not CanKor Report subscribers, we are posting the introductions of the last three issues for your information. Here follows the introduction to...
View ArticleThe Final Chapter
[In order to bring up-to-date our website readers who are not CanKor Report subscribers, we are posting the introductions of the last three issues for your information. Here follows the introduction to...
View ArticleEcumenical Accompaniment for Building Justice and Peace in Korea by Erich...
[This article was written for a discussion on "The Korean Peninsula: Towards an Ecumenical Accompaniment for Building Justice and Peace" at the 10th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches,...
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