May 07, 2024

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Tizzard

David Tizzard

David A. Tizzard has a Ph.D. in Korean Studies and lectures at Seoul Women's University and Hanyang University. He is a social and cultural commentator who has lived in Korea for nearly two decades. He is also the host of the Korea Deconstructed podcast.

Opinion

Book review: Kim Il Sung and the dictators that dance on bones

In North Korea, only one version of history exists – a common theme in all authoritarian states, Katie Stallard writes

David TizzardDavid TizzardMay 2, 2022
Opinion

Book review: The intractable dilemma of North Korean human rights

‘The North Korea Conundrum’ explores how to push for the DPRK’s denuclearization without abandoning human rights

David TizzardDavid TizzardMarch 24, 2022
Opinion

Review: Offering red pill about North Korea, new book instead jettisons truth

While aiming to humanize North Koreans, Felix Abt’s latest presents misleading critiques of Western narratives

David TizzardDavid TizzardMarch 1, 2022
Opinion

Why the next South Korean government should reach out to the North

Moon Jae-in, if elected, must establish formal diplomatic relations with the North

David TizzardDavid TizzardApril 4, 2017
Opinion

A trip to Yanggu and the search for peace on the Peninsula

The towns and villages where the two Koreas meet are the best place to start building a solution

David TizzardDavid TizzardJanuary 24, 2017
Opinion

Shades of gray? Challenging the realist view of North Korea

Neoconservative and simplistic approaches to the DPRK haven't worked

David TizzardDavid TizzardOctober 5, 2016
Opinion

Peaceful Korean co-existence, not unification, makes more sense

Those championing, predicting unification are misguided in 'seemingly utopian visions'

David TizzardDavid TizzardAugust 29, 2016
Opinion

Why language isn’t all that matters when it comes to N.Korea studies

Relying on work of others is widespread in academia, so what's wrong with using translations?

David TizzardDavid TizzardJuly 25, 2016
Opinion

Kim rules: How term limits hurt inter-Korean policy

If South Korea's policy changes every five years no progress with the North is likely to take place

David TizzardDavid TizzardJune 23, 2016
Opinion

Discuss the North openly in South Korea

Fear of being branded a traitor stifles study of the North, holds back constructive discussion

David TizzardDavid TizzardApril 25, 2016