Andrei Lankov

Russian academic · Australia · On the map · Academics · Born 1963 · age 63 · also Russia

Andrei Nikolaevich Lankov is a Russo-Australian scholar of Asia and specialist in Korean studies and Director of Korea Risk Group, the parent company of NK News and NK Pro. In the 1990s, he worked in South Korea and Australia, and has been teaching in Seoul since 2004.

Andrei Lankov is read about 346 times a day, in 17 languages.

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2015“Objectively speaking, the history of North Korean state has been one of an ambitious social if brutal experiment that ended in a very ugly disaster.”In their wordsNovember 2015"Get ready for selective amnesia: Expect northern Koreans to take a Russian or Japanese - not a German - attitude toward the past",Read the whole statement

“North Koreans now understand that South Korea is very rich.”In their wordsOctober 2015"The Folly of an Inter-Korean Confederation", NK News (October 2015)Read the whole statement

“The North Korean elite does have some sources of hope. The elite itself remains, on the surface at least, remarkably united.”In their wordsOctober 2015"The Folly of an Inter-Korean Confederation", NK News (October 2015)Read the whole statement

“Right now, no sane and unbiased person would be so stupid as to doubt that the North Korean state is very repressive.”In their wordsOctober 2015"The Folly of an Inter-Korean Confederation", NK News (October 2015)Read the whole statement

“If a North Korean university professor is suspected of insufficient enthusiasm for the system, they will be gone without a trace very quickly.”In their wordsOctober 2015"The Folly of an Inter-Korean Confederation", NK News (October 2015)Read the whole statement

“The great famine of 1994-98 was to a large extent the inviolable result of the policies that Kim Il Sung had pursued for decades.”In their words27 September 2015NK NewsRead the whole statement

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The unavoidable spread of South Korean capital and information will put the North Korean government in a tight spot, to put it mildly.
October 2015 · "The Folly of an Inter-Korean Confederation", NK News (October 2015), Own words