Dr. Satu P. Limaye (
Opening Remarks)
Director, East-West Center in Washington
This webinar will discuss the long arc of North Korea’s engagement with Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia, beginning with Pyongyang’s early involvement in the Non-Aligned Movement and its support for various revolutionary and anti-imperialist causes. The discussion will highlight key turning points as North Korea’s activities with countries in the “Global South” became less about ideological affinity and more transactional, and will ask what significance these relationships continue to have.
This
North Korea in the World webinar will be the first in a series examining North Korea’s historical and contemporary relations with countries in the Global South, with subsequent webinars taking a closer look at Pyongyang’s relations with specific countries or subregions. The
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ZOOM PROTOCOL
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from the Government Accountability Office gave an overview of the historical context for the current U.S. military presence in Japan and South Korea and highlight current U.S. government and expert views on the benefits of these bases to U.S. national security, as well as provide some detailed data on the costs of the U.S. presence.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
Diana Maurer is a Director in the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) Defense Capabilities and Management team, where she currently leads GAO’s work overseeing defense sustainment and readiness issues. Her recent work includes reviews of F-35 sustainment, conditions and workforce at military depots, and the mission capability of military aviation. She has testified more than two dozen times before Congressional committees on a variety of issues including the F-35, Navy ship maintenance, federal prisons, national drug control policy, the FBI’s use of facial recognition technology, and several DHS management issues