The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) and AEI will be launching a new HRNK report entitled, “Marked For Life: Songbun, North Korea’s Social Classification System,” which will be discussed at this event. The panel will also examine the extent to which the growing reliance on money and bribery is eroding the songbun system’s influence.

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What matters for China is not whether Westerners believe the system is cracking. The question is: How do the Chinese view their own system?

Soon-to-be former secretary of state Colin Powell's over-enthusiastic advocacy at home left him little time to do advocacy for the United States abroad.

Former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill's bitterness isunderstandable, but his reported views regarding the conduct of economic policy do not comport with the public record.

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"If we could just take a little bit from each of them."