#  “Everlasting Fraternal Friendship”: North Korea and the End of Communism 

 



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####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 17, 2013** 

 04:30PM - 06:00PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Thomas Chan-Soo Kang Room (S050), CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

*Kim Koo Forum on Korea Current Affairs*

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**Charles K. Armstrong**, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Columbia University

Charles K. Armstrong is the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History at Columbia University, where he teaches courses on Korean, East Asian and international history. He has authored, edited or co-edited six books, including most recently *Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950 -1992* (Cornell University Press, 2013), *The Koreas* (Routledge: second edition, 2013), *Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy and the State* (Routledge, second edition 2006), and *Korea at the Center: Dynamics of Regionalism in Northeast Asia* (M.E. Sharpe, 2006). He is currently completing *A History of Modern East Asia, 1800 – present* for the *Wiley-Blackwell Concise History of the Modern World* series, to be published in 2014. Professor Armstrong holds a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Yale University, an M.A. in International Relations from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago. He has taught at Princeton, Seoul National University, and the University of Washington in Seattle, and has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 1996.

Chaired by **Carter J. Eckert**, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University

*The Korea Institute acknowledges the generous support of the Kim Koo Foundation.*  
  
\* Video available for view at: <https://vimeo.com/channels/koreainstitute>



 

 



 

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