John Everard, former UK ambassador to Belarus, Uruguay and North Korea, former member of the UN Security Council’s Panel of Experts on sanctions against North Korea. Author of Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat In North Korea.
Do North Koreans believe North Korean government propaganda?
It’s impossible to allocate percentages. Just anecdotally, it’s everything from people who swallow every last word that the regime churns out, to people who of course have to go along to... Читать далее
This is a no brainer. A country leaves the largest trading bloc, and gives up it's contingent political influence, and drops 2 places in the World GDP rankings has not enhanced it's... Читать далее
John Everard, former UK ambassador to Belarus, Uruguay and North Korea, former member of the UN Security Council’s Panel of Experts on sanctions against North Korea. Author of Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat In North Korea.
How can a country as isolated and impoverished as North Korea survive in the 21st century?
I think there’s a myth that isolated countries can’t survive. That simply isn’t true. A country can survive in isolation for a very long time. To keep your country going, essentially, you... Читать далее
The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that it would cost around $30bn per year over a ten-year period to completely wipe out global hunger. That may sound a... Читать далее
Associate Professor in International Relations at the London School of Economics, previously taught at Goldsmiths College and Demos. Currently completing a book entitled Anatomies of Revolution. @lseideas
A stable definition would be something like ‘a rapid transformation of a society’s political, economic and symbolic institutions’, but you’re only going to know that’s happened... Читать далее
John Everard, former UK ambassador to Belarus, Uruguay and North Korea, former member of the UN Security Council’s Panel of Experts on sanctions against North Korea. Author of Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat In North Korea.
There are any number of possible buttons. If, for example, they got into a firefight on the border with South Korea. Remember that we came very close to that in 2015, with the North... Читать далее
Professor of History and Political Theory at Oxford Brookes University, author of The Nature of Fascism (Routledge), A Fascist Century (Palgrave Macmillan) and more. @oxford_brookes
Are the majority of countries predominately on the left or right on the political spectrum?
By definition, the majority of countries in the world are in the hands of governments who are trying to maintain the status quo or to modernise. Therefore they are anti-revolutionary... Читать далее
John Everard, former UK ambassador to Belarus, Uruguay and North Korea, former member of the UN Security Council’s Panel of Experts on sanctions against North Korea. Author of Only Beautiful, Please: A British Diplomat In North Korea.
Yes, entirely. They calculate very carefully and they think hard before they make even quite minor moves. But they often miscalculate – largely, I suspect, because they don’t really... Читать далее
A Trump presidency doesn't necessarily mean the end of the United States as a policeman but it does mean that the US is going to be stepping back during the next four years from a number... Читать далее
Author of South China Sea: The Struggle For Power In Asia (Yale 2014), Vietnam: Rising Dragon (Yale 2010), TV journalist, Associate Fellow of @CHAsiaProg @bill_hayton
No, it’s definitely not under the control of China. Attitudes towards China divide the country tremendously. Furthermore, what often appear to be divisions about the country's... Читать далее