April 27, 2024

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Aidan Foster-Carter

Aidan Foster-Carter

Aidan Foster-Carter is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he taught sociology at the Universities of Hull, Dar es Salaam and Leeds from 1971 to 1997. Having followed Korean affairs since 1968, since 1997 he has been a full-time analyst and consultant on Korea: writing, lecturing and broadcasting for academic, business and policy audiences in the UK and worldwide.

Columns

Straws in the wind: Might the U.S. and DPRK get it on again?

Secret flights, personnel shifts, a UN trip: Something’s up, despite denials

Aidan Foster-CarterAidan Foster-CarterSeptember 3, 2014
Columns

Arms and the man: The importance of being Jon Pyong Ho

More than anyone, ‘Mr. Munitions’ made North Korea a credible threat

Aidan Foster-CarterAidan Foster-CarterJuly 10, 2014
Analysis

Déjà vu all over again: Faint cheer for DPRK cheerleaders

North Korea has sent cheerleaders to the South before – with mixed results

Aidan Foster-CarterAidan Foster-CarterJuly 8, 2014
Columns

When two triangles fall apart: The new Korean geopolitics

Japan talking to the North? China cozy with the South? What’s going on?

Aidan Foster-CarterAidan Foster-CarterJuly 2, 2014
Columns

Wham Bam Nam! Good riddance to Seoul’s spy chief

The now ex-NIS head meddled in politics and damaged inter-Korean ties

Aidan Foster-CarterAidan Foster-CarterMay 29, 2014
Analysis

He shells sea shells: Should we worry?

Moral: The two Koreas urgently need to find their way back to a better way of relating

Aidan Foster-CarterAidan Foster-CarterMay 23, 2014
Analysis

Kimmy No-Mates: Why no meeting and greeting?

In power over 2 years, Kim Jong Un has yet to meet a single other leader

Aidan Foster-CarterAidan Foster-CarterMay 14, 2014
Analysis

Blasts from the past: Extinct North Korea websites

Was there life before NKNews? A backward glance at some early pioneers

Aidan Foster-CarterAidan Foster-CarterApril 21, 2014
Columns

Reining in South Korea’s out-of-control National Intelligence Service

N. Korean threat makes NIS necessary, but they've exceeded their legal mandate

Aidan Foster-CarterAidan Foster-CarterMarch 18, 2014
Columns

South Korea’s meddlesome spooks

Security agency is in the dock, but it’s fighting back hard

Aidan Foster-CarterAidan Foster-CarterMarch 17, 2014
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