Understanding Japan's complicated relationship with North Korea
Meet Oliver, a Japan-North Korea relations researcher based in Kyoto, who sat down to talk with us about politics, kidnappings, North Korean schools in Japan, and the complicated relationship Japan has with its neighbor to the north.
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
0:32 Meet Oliver
9:24 Starting point for Japan/NK relations
13:04 Influence of South Korea
15:26 North Korean Japanese people
16:38 NK Abductions of Japanese people
23:46 Change from Kim Jong Il to Kim Jong Un
25:46 Japan/NK relations today
29:17 Threat of a nuclear North Korea
32:16 Missile defense systems in Japan
36:29 Actually reliable news sources
39:08 North Korean schools in Japan
42:17 What North Koreans in Japan think
44:21 Influence of celebrities like Yeonmi Park
45:55 What it's like to study NK relations
47:50 Is there a resolution in sight?
48:58 What Japanese things actually gets media attention?
54:22 What people should pay attention to
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