Update at 20:00 KST: This article has been amended to include a response from Cornell University Press, Armstrong's publisher
Charles K Armstrong, a long-time Korea studies professor at Columbia University, has been found to have plagiarized sources used in his critically-lauded 2013 book "Tyranny of the Weak" and will retire, his employers said this week.
Update at 20:00 KST: This article has been amended to include a response from Cornell University Press, Armstrong's publisher
Charles K Armstrong, a long-time Korea studies professor at Columbia University, has been found to have plagiarized sources used in his critically-lauded 2013 book "Tyranny of the Weak" and will retire, his employers said this week.
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