{"id":50705,"date":"2015-02-02T08:28:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=50705"},"modified":"2015-01-27T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:29:52","slug":"discussion-with-jin-sung-jang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/?p=50705","title":{"rendered":"Discussion with Jin-sung Jang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>02\/02\/2015 6:30pm<br \/>\nKorea Society<br \/>\n950 Third Ave., 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022<br \/>\n<!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/png_base64de26e559ff88100c.png\" rel=\"lightbox[50705]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-50706\" src=\"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/png_base64de26e559ff88100c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"431\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nPlease join us on next Monday evening, February 2 for a discussion with Jin-sung Jang, the author of Dear Leader Poet, Spy, Escapee &#8211; A Look Inside North Korea, a book about his life as the former \u201ccourt poet\u201d to Kim Jong-il, his work as a high-ranking counterintelligence agent, and his breathtaking escape to freedom. Mr. Jang, currently the editor-in-chief of New Focus International, an authoritative website reporting on North Korea, will provide a rare insider\u2019s view into contemporary North Korea on his first visit to the U.S. The discussion will be led by Dr. Su Mi Terry, a former CIA analyst and current senior research scholar at Columbia University\u2019s Weatherhead East Asian Institute. The book will be available for sale, and a reception and book signing will follow.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.koreasociety.org\/arts-culture\/literature\/jang_jin-sung_poet_spy_escapee.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.koreasociety.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>02\/02\/2015 6:30pm Korea Society 950 Third Ave., 8th Floor, New York, NY 10022<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stay-connected-to-the-latest-local-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50708,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50705\/revisions\/50708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.asianinny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}