
The Third Korea
John Delury thinks we’ve been misunderstanding North Korea for far too long, and offers Don Oberdorfer and Robert Carlin’s new edition of The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History as a solution....
John Delury is an assistant professor of Chinese and East Asian Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. He is the author, with Orville Schell, of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century (Random House, 2013). Previously associate director of the Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations (where he is now a senior fellow), he writes widely on China and North Korea, including recent pieces in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy,Late Imperial China, and 38 North.