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Susan Shirk Invited to North Korea

North Korea Seeks to Woo U.S. Through Private Experts

10/18/2010
The Chosun Ilbo (English Edition)

North Korea has invited several American North Korea experts in a bid to engineer talks with the U.S. government, VOA reported last Friday.

Susan Shirk, a former U.S. deputy assistant secretary of state, and Tony Namgoong, an assistant to New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, visited the North last month, and at least four more private groups will travel to the Stalinist country by late next month, the radio said.

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Susan Shirk is director of the University of California system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and Ho Miu Lam professor of China and Pacific Relations at IR/PS.

She founded in 1993 and continues to lead the Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), an unofficial “track-two” forum for discussions of security issues among defense and foreign ministry officials and academics from the United States, Japan, China, Russia, and the Koreas.

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