Unpacking Japan | Understanding Japan's complicated relationship with North Korea @unpackingjapan | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 9 hours ago.
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 more.
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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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