Relations with countries in europe. This follows the prior Webinar Series on north koreas relations with countries in the global south. The north korea in the world project is a joint initiative of the mk and the Eastwest Center that includes the north korea in the world website, which curates information and data on north koreas external economic and diplomatic relations through the world. My Eastwest Center colleague ross tokola is moderator for todays event. Ross is executive associate to the director of the Eastwest Center in washington. He gives advice and support to the director on ongoing nearterm and longterm strategic projects and programs and helps monitor progress and ensure effective coordination with eastwest enter in washington, its staff, and stakeholders. Previously he was a Program Officer at the Side Institute for policy studies. Asan institute for policy studies during his years in seoul. In addition to studying the korean language at hogan university in seoul, he ho