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A Secret Society: Life Inside North Korea (Complete)

SAN FRANCISCO, June 3, 2014 — Thomas B. Gold (Professor of Sociology, UC Berkeley) discusses with Michael Kirby (Chairman of U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in the DPRK), Lee Seong Min (DPRK defector), Hannah Song (President and CEO of Liberty in North Korea) and Katharina Zellweger (former North Korea country director of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation) about what the international community can do with regard to North Korea. (1 hr., 15 min.)

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