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Han Park - Wikipedia 박한식

Han Park - Wikipedia

Han Park
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Han S. Park
Born
China
Education Seoul National University, B.A.
American University, M.A.
University of Minnesota, PhD
Occupations Professor, scholar of global peace and North Korea
Employer University of Georgia
Notable work North Korea: The Politics of Unconventional Wisdom (2002)
Title Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Georgia


Han Park is a scholar of global peace and North Korea–United States relations.[1][2] He is a Professor Emeritus of International Affairs at the University of Georgia.[1][2]

Life and career

Park was born in China to Korean parents.[3] He received a B.A. in political science from Seoul National University, an M.A. in political science from American University, and a PhD in political science from the University of Minnesota.[1]

Park has played the role of an unofficial peacemaker and mediator between the United States and North Korea.[2] He has at times worked with the U.S. Department of State and former president Jimmy Carter.[2] Park is the former director of the Center for the Study of Global Issues at the University of Georgia.[3]

Park traveled to North Korea during the 2009 imprisonment of American journalists by North Korea.[4][5] In 2013, he wrote an opinion piece for the Athens Banner-Herald about the role of the United States in peacemaking during the 2012–2013 escalation of the Syrian civil war.[6]

Selected publications

Human Needs and Political Development (1984)
China and North Korea (co-authored, 1990)
North Korea: Ideology, Politics, Economy (edited, 1996)
North Korea: The Politics of Unconventional Wisdom (2002)[7]
North Korea Demystified (2012)

References
"Han S. Park". University of Georgia. Retrieved November 30, 2024.
Shearer, Lee (December 4, 2015). 

Armstrong, Charles K. (2004). "North Korea: The Politics of Unconventional Wisdom. By Han S. Park New York: Lynne Rienner, 2002. 193 pp".  Journal of East Asian Studies. 4: 181–183.


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Quest for Peace: A Memoir



Han S. Park, Jennifer Telfer (Translator), Rebecca Kim (Translator)

Quest for Peace takes you behind the scenes in some pivotal negotiations between the USA and North Korea in recent decades. With personal stories woven throughout, the author explains his motivation for transforming conflict and details his decades’ long journey of seeking to understand the political systems and mindsets of the USA, South Korea, and North Korea. He paints a vision for a united Korea and proposes steps to make that dream a reality.


416 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 5, 2023


This edition
Format
416 pages, Kindle Edition

Published
January 5, 2023 by Catholic Institute of Northeast Asia Peace
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Zain Joyce
5.0 out of 5 stars Series of personal reflections - with information about cultivating a "reunification generation"

Reviewed in the United States on 16 April 2023
Format: KindleVerified Purchase

Dr. Park does a good job of seeking to understand North Korea as it is. He presents this as a vital step to approaching the North, and he explains the insights he's gleaned over years of studying and interacting with North Korea. You also get an inside glimpse at the work going on in the background to resolve some high profile situations - such as the arrest of two American reporters and President Jimmy Carter's trip to negotiate an end to the nuclear crisis in 1994.

For me, the most hopeful part of this book, however, is the future painted by Dr. Park - envisioning a future where the divided Korean peninsula is able to harmonize its differences and work together. He's convinced that the ideological differences need not be fatal - but can find their synthesis in one another. He proposes practical ideas for Korea - diaspora and those living on the peninsula - to become a reunification generation.
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