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.
Secret flights, personnel shifts, a UN trip: Something’s up, despite denials
More than anyone, ‘Mr. Munitions’ made North Korea a credible threat
North Korea has sent cheerleaders to the South before – with mixed results
Japan talking to the North? China cozy with the South? What’s going on?
The now ex-NIS head meddled in politics and damaged inter-Korean ties
Moral: The two Koreas urgently need to find their way back to a better way of relating
In power over 2 years, Kim Jong Un has yet to meet a single other leader
Was there life before NKNews? A backward glance at some early pioneers
N. Korean threat makes NIS necessary, but they've exceeded their legal mandate
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