Author Archives: Victor Cha

Victor Cha

Victor Cha is the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Director of Asian Studies at Georgetown University, and a Fellow in Human Freedom at the George W. Bush Institute.  Lindsay Lloyd is Program Director, Freedom Collection at the George W. Bush Institute.

BREAKING NORTH KOREA’S INFORMATION BLOCKADE

By Chris Walsh Victor Cha | October 28, 2014

This post originally appeared on Shadow Government | Foreign Policy.   Forty days.  That’s the timespan between September 3 and October 14 that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un vanished from public sight. Speculation ran rampant outside North Korea as to…

CHINA’S COMPLICITY IN NORTH KOREA’S ABUSES

By Melanie Kirkpatrick Victor Cha | July 31, 2014

One way the United States can pressure Pyongyang is to pressure Beijing. Washington needs to remind its counterpart that continuing to repatriate North Koreans is harmful to its relations with South Korea and the United States, and is unbefitting of China’s aspirations to be a great power.

THE GULAGS OF NORTH KOREA

By Lindsay Lloyd Victor Cha | June 10, 2014

The world now has eyewitness evidence that crimes against humanity are being committed by the North Korean state against its people.