Faculty Forum Online: Kim Jong-un and the Dangers of a Nuclear North Korea, June 11, 2013

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Under Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, North Korea has increased its willingness to use hostile rhetoric, particularly in messages directed towards the US, Japan, and South Korea. Opinions differ on what Kim's regime gains from these tactics and how the threatened countries should react.

In the next Faculty Forum Online broadcast, the Alumni Association welcomes back James Walsh PhD '00, a research associate in the MIT Security Studies Program. Walsh will discuss different approaches to understanding North Korea and its recent display of threatening actions. Following his comments, Walsh will take questions from the worldwide MIT community. The event is set for Tuesday, June 11, 2013, from noon to 12:30 p.m. (EDT).

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An expert in international security, Walsh participated in the June 2012 Faculty Forum Online, where he discussed his face-to-face meetings with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

ABOUT JAMES WALSH PhD '00 Prior to joining MIT in 2006, Walsh served as executive director of the Managing the Atom project at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a visiting scholar at the Center for Global Security Research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Brown University and a doctorate in political science from MIT.

In 2008, British newspaper The Independent selected his thoughts on Iran’s nuclear activities as one the year’s 10 best ideas. Walsh’s analysis has appeared media outlets including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, and NPR. He serves as a terrorism consultant for WHDH, Boston's NBC affiliate, and an Iraq War analyst for WGBH, Boston's PBS affiliate.

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