Aidan Foster-Carter is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University in England. Educated at Eton and Oxford, he taught sociology at the Universities of Hull, Dar es Salaam and Leeds from 1971 to 1997. Having followed Korean affairs since 1968, since 1997 he has been a full-time analyst and consultant on Korea: writing, lecturing and broadcasting for academic, business and policy audiences in the UK and worldwide.
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The latest Kim is a man with a plan - and it's working out just fine
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As the games begin, it's worth handing out some prizes of our own
The well-regarded scholar was not hawkish enough for Trump
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First Trump, now Moon Jae-in - but such tough talk achieves little
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