South Korea needs open discourse on North Korea — even when contentious

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South Korea needs open discourse on North Korea — even when contentious

Efforts to criminalize non-official narratives stifle free debate essential to understand DPRK and threats it poses

Joseph Yi November 8, 2023

South Korea needs open discourse on North Korea — even when contentious

North Korean and South Korean soldiers at Panmunjom | Image: Eric Lafforgue (April 27, 2010)

Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Joseph Yi, a professor at Hanyang University and founding member of the Heterodox Academy East Asia Community. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

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Joseph Yi

Joseph Yi (PhD, University of Chicago) is an associate professor of political science at Hanyang University (Seoul). Yi studies the development of individual liberty in various settings, from mature democracies (e.g., USA) to young democracies (South Korea) to closed autocracies (North Korea); and communication and cooperation across social groups and countries. His published essays and research are available at https://hanyang.academia.edu/JosephYi

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