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Ji-young Song

Ji-young Song

Jiyoung (Jay) Song is a senior lecturer in Korean studies at the Asia Institute of the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously, she was a director of migration at the Sydney-based Lowy Institute and assistant professor of political science in Singapore. She is the author of Human Rights Discourse in North Korea: Postcolonial, Marxist, and Confucian Perspectives (London: Routledge 2010).

Opinion

How Australia could help South Korea deal with Pyongyang

Canberra is in a unique position to engage diplomatically with North Korea

Ji-young SongJi-young SongNovember 9, 2017
Opinion

The women who will lead the two Korea’s nuke negotiation teams

Choe Son Hui and Kang Kyung-wha are rare examples of high-level female diplomats in Korea

Ji-young SongJi-young SongSeptember 7, 2017

Studying North Korean human rights: A South Korean’s perspective

Years of experience indicate that working with the North the only way to achieve progress

Ji-young SongJi-young SongDecember 28, 2015
Opinion

Who really speaks for North Korea’s abduction victims?

Lesser-known cases demonstrate problems with building multilateral consensus

Ji-young SongJi-young SongNovember 25, 2015
Analysis

What is life like for North Koreans in Britain?

Some 700 North Koreans now live in the UK – what role could they have when the peninsula is unified?

Ji-young SongJi-young SongOctober 15, 2015
Evergreen

Why some N. Korean defectors’ stories fall apart

From cash incentives to NIS backing, it doesn’t always pay to tell the truth

Ji-young SongJi-young SongSeptember 4, 2015