North Korea Research Group

Ilham Alam

Ilham is currently finishing her last year as an undergraduate, double majoring in International Relations and English, subjects that have interested her since elementary school. Her career goals are to work in the public service, to be able to live and work abroad especially Africa or to become a famous writer, a la, J.K. Rowling.

Hye-In Chung

Hane is a fourth year International Relations and Political Science student who secretly enjoys philosophizing about life during her free time. Her main interests include comparative politics of Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, as well as Canadian political institutions. She is also known to frequently receive complaints about walking too fast.

Yeji Viviana Kim

Viv is a MA student in Art History at the University of Toronto. Her current research interests focus on visual colonialism of 1930s Korea and the aesthetics of aemulatio in the visual culture of Rome. Her usual intake of coffee a day? About four or five cups... Is that too much?

Kathleen Harrington

Kat is a fourth year student struggling towards a double major in International Relations and East Asian Studies with an 'accidental' minor in History. Just back from a year in Osaka, Japan, her most pertinent academic concern presently is to relearn the English language. While freezing in rock concert lines, she enjoys reading works by Karl Marx and contemporary Asia-Pacific histories.

Alan Ho

Alan is a third year International Relations specialist with a major in Political Science. His areas of interests are conflict management, geopolitics in the East Asia region and Cold War history. He grew up in Hong Kong and perhaps the most interesting fact about him is that he is a triplet.

Catherine Lam

Catherine is a fourth year student with a double major in history and political science. Her academic interests are peace and conflict management and international security. During her spare time she enjoys contemplating about the meaning of life and eating.

Christopher LaRoche

Christopher LaRoche is a PhD candidate in International Relations whose research interests focus on international security, nuclear nonproliferation, and "rogue states." Before signing his life away to the catacombs of UofT's graduate administration, he was a research fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and a writer/researcher for Canada's World, both in Vancouver, B.C. He holds an MA (political science) from Dalhousie University and a bachelor of journalism and political science from the University of King's College. Chris pretends to come from a journalism background, having taken orders from his superiors with aplomb at a variety of publications including The Walrus magazine, the Montreal Gazette, Universal Press Syndicate, and a number of not-quite-as-illustrious publications, including the Dalhousie Gazette, in his home province of Nova Scotia.

Conrad Lochovsky

Conrad is a first year Masters student in biomedical engineering at the University of Toronto. Having grown up in Hong Kong, cultural and political events in the greater Asian region are of interest to him. To Conrad, NKRG is a counterweight to the math of fluid mechanics and chemistry of microfabrication.

APR Collaborators:

Adam Linthwaite

MA student in Asia Pacific Studies & East Asian Studies.

Past NKRG Student Analysts