Peter M. Beck is the Pantech Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University. From June 23 to July 16, 2010, he will be a visiting professor at Ewha Womans University. Previously, he was the executive director of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea and directed the International Crisis Group's Northeast Asia Project in Seoul. He was also the director of research and academic affairs at the Korea Economic Institute. He has served as a member of the Ministry of Unification's Policy Advisory Committee and as an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown and Yonsei universities. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and ABD from the University of California at San Diego.
During his fellowship tenure, Mr. Beck will search for effective strategies for Washington, Tokyo and Seoul to coordinate their human rights policies toward North Korea. His research will focus on several potential areas of cooperation, including incorporating a human rights component into a revived trilateral cooperation and oversight group, crafting a joint approach to the return of the more than 400 foreigners abducted by the North, and the feasibility of creating a joint resettlement organization for the roughly 3,000 North Korean refugees being resettled in South Korea, the United States, and Japan each year.
Robert Dujarric and Peter M. Beck say the queen of England's trip to the Irish Republic should persuade the Japanese government to accept South Korea's invitation to allow the emperor to pay a visit.
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Peter M. Beck argues that the initiative to form a Korea-Japan alliance will have to come from Seoul, given that Tokyo is preoccupied with recovering from the earthquake.
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Peter M. Beck argues that the attack on Yeonpyeong is a sign of internal pressures on the North Korean regime--and a warning that America's current approach to the region isn't working.
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Peter Beck and Robert Dujarric argue that Japan should look to Korea for inspiration on how to engage more effectively with the world.
Peter M. Beck discusses Kim Jong-Il's efforts to make family rule permanent in North Korea, and complications that may make smooth leadership transition feasible just in the short run.
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