Greg Scarlatoiu will lead an effort to explore the ideological changes underway in North Korea. He will commission reports on the changes in the cult of personality of North Korean leaders over three generations, the changes in North Korean concepts of unification, and North Korean labor rights violations at home and abroad. The project’s findings will appear in a series of reports and policy briefs.
Greg Scarlatoiu will lead an effort to examine regime stability in North Korea. He will draw on lessons from repressive political systems that either collapsed or embarked on political transitions to assess how well the North Korean regime has managed the COVID-19 pandemic, refugee outflows, and party-military relations. The project’s findings will be presented in a series of reports.