AFSC Update on North Korea

AFSC Update on North Korea

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Update from American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) on North Korea Thursday February 15th 2018 Dear Friends As many of you will know the American Friends Service Committee have an ongoing concern for North Korea and have staff both in the United States and Asia who are concerned about engaging with the DPRK in a positive way. You can read about their work on the AFSC website: https://www.afsc.org/office/north-korea I am grateful that Lucy Roberts, Director of the Asian AFSC office has agreed to give Quakers in the Asia West Pacific Section of FWCC an update on their work on Thursday 15th February 2018. The update will be in the form of a webinar, using Zoom, for 1 hour and the outline is below. If you would like to be part of this, then please reply to this email and we will send instructions about how to participate. It is easy to do. You will be able to join in individually on your computer, laptop or phone or you could invite a few Quaker friends to be with you so that you can participate with a group. in friendship Webinar Outline Engaging North Korea   An update with American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) Introduction (5 minutes) Lucy Roberts, AFSC Regional Director in Asia. Lucy is based in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Current Context (15 minutes) Dr Linda Lewis, based in Seattle manages AFSC work in North Korea. Linda will talk about the context AFSC is working within in relation to the DPRK. AFSC advocacy in the United States (15 minutes) Daniel Jasper will join us from Washington DC. Dan will talk about the approach of the United States to North Korea and the current advocacy work of AFSC Australian perspective on North Korea (10 minutes) James Reilly Associate Professor, Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney. James will talk about North Korea from the perspective of Australia Discussion (15 minutes) The time of the webinar is below: Aotearoa/New Zealand 3.00 PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time 1.00 PM Western Australia Daylight Time 10.00 AM Japan 11 AM Singapore   10. AM Hong Kong   10.00 AM Philippines   10.00 AM South Korea   11.00 AM Cambodia   9.00 AM India   7.30 AM Looking forward to seeing you on line on Feb 15! Ronis Ronis Chapman  Secretary FWCC AWPS ronisc@fwccawps.org