Engineering a look into North Korea



Evergreen Engineering a look into North Korea Irishman spends two years working in the Hermit Kingdom, offers moving personal account Gianluca Spezza March 20, 2014 SHARE COPY LINK FACEBOOK X LINKEDIN MASTODON Dualta Roughneen *North Korea: On the Inside, Looking In* by Dualta Roughneen, Bennion Kearny, 2014. When he applied for a job in Sierra Leone with an NGO in 2004, 26-year-old Dualta Roughneen of Ireland could have not imagined that they would send him to work in North Korea instead. A civil engineer by trade, Roughneen had little or no knowledge of the DPRK and, as he explains at the beginning of his book, he fell into the job: Having failed to secure the post he originally applied for, he was offered a chance to go to North Korea instead. Thinking that his © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. No part of this content may be reproduced, distributed, or used for commercial purposes without prior written permission from Korea Risk Group. Get the Daily Update & Podcast Updates Start your day with the North Korea stories that matter most – as selected by Trending

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Engineering a look into North Korea

Irishman spends two years working in the Hermit Kingdom, offers moving personal account

Gianluca Spezza March 20, 2014

Dualta Roughneen

North Korea: On the Inside, Looking In

by Dualta Roughneen,

Bennion Kearny, 2014.

When he applied for a job in Sierra Leone with an NGO in 2004, 26-year-old Dualta Roughneen of Ireland could have not imagined that they would send him to work in North Korea instead. A civil engineer by trade, Roughneen had little or no knowledge of the DPRK and, as he explains at the beginning of his book, he fell into the job: Having failed to secure the post he originally applied for, he was offered a chance to go to North Korea instead.

Thinking that his

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Gianluca Spezza

Gianluca Spezza earned his PhD in 2017 from the University of Central Lancashire under the supervision of Professor Hazel Smith, on the strength of research on the cooperation between UNICEF and the DPRK in education and childcare. Dr Spezza is an assistant professor of international relations and a senior researcher at the DPRK Strategy Center at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan; he is writing a monograph on education, international cooperation, and human capital in North Korea (Palgrave 2021). His work on the DPRK, articles or interviews, can be found, among others, on the websites of the BBC, The Guardian, The Diplomat, IRIN News, NK News, DR.dk, Newsweek Korea, and El Confidential.

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