Event at Samford to Consider ‘North Korea Beyond the Nuclear Crisis’

Samford University in Birmingham will host noted Korea scholar David C. Kang for a public lecture Oct. 27 at 7 p.m. in the university’s Brock Recital Hall. Kang is professor of international relations and business and director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California.

Kang’s lecture — “North Korea Beyond the Nuclear Crisis” — is sponsored by Samford’s global studies program and history majors with generous support from the Distinguished Speakers Bureau of the Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies, the Korean Foundation and Howard College of Arts and Sciences.

Kang will address North Korea as a complex whole and provide a new lens through which to understand its nuclear program, its depressing lack of progress on human rights, its changing economy and how the people of North Korea are changing. For more information, call 205-726-4197.