Luke Herman, MPIA '12, Completes North Korean Leadership Tracker
Web Site Presents North Korea Data In Visual Form
11/01/2012
Evan Ramstad,
Wall Street Journal
There’s a new way to look at North Korea.
It’s called NK Leadership Tracker and it’s a data-visualization project accessible on a website put together by NK News, an independent organization based in the U.S., and the Washington-based Korea Economic Institute.
The site, officially launched in Washington on Thursday, presents in graphical form information about the North Korean regime that is transmitted by its state-run news agency, its main party newspaper Rodong Shinmun, South Korea’s Ministry of Unification and academic sources. It allows users to mine through the data on their own, downloading slices of data or whole sets.
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Luke Herman is a graduate of international politics at IR/PS with a regional focus on China and Southeast Asia. He received a BA in international relations with a focus on East Asia from Boston University. He was a graduate fellow at the Boston University International History Institute as well as a Young Leader with the Center for Strategic and International Studies Pacific Forum.
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