{"id":935,"date":"2018-12-05T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T12:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/?p=935"},"modified":"2018-12-05T12:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T12:25:02","slug":"talk-by-a-diplomat-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/12\/talk-by-a-diplomat-to-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk by a diplomat to North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening I attended a presentation organised by the Lancaster University Politics Society.\u00a0 It was a talk by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Hoare\">James Hoare<\/a> &#8211; a retired diplomat who has worked as charg\u00e9 d&#8217;affaires in North Korea &#8211; about his experience of working in diplomacy and foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p>While doing a PhDin Japnese studies he was recruited by the FCO and was duly sent off to cover for someone in North Korea, and that was that.<\/p>\n<p>We learned about the history of Korea, especially since 1910 and what it was like living there.\u00a0 He confirmed what we were told about the theoretical practice: that there is a pre-diplomacy stage before formal international relations are acknowledged.\u00a0 During these occasional and factious meetings, there was one he said that went very well when the British representatives talked about bent coppers, thug-like prison officers and corruption in the UK.\u00a0 The honesty thawed the previously difficult communication.<\/p>\n<p>He said we should go as tourists; communication is always good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening I attended a presentation organised by the Lancaster University Politics Society.\u00a0 It was a talk by James Hoare &#8211; a retired diplomat who has worked as charg\u00e9 d&#8217;affaires in North Korea &#8211; about his experience of working in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/12\/talk-by-a-diplomat-to-north-korea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320],"tags":[321],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diplomacy","tag-diplomacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonewwars.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}