Posted on 04/19/2016 5:40:41 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Three Nobel prize winners to visit North Korea in late Aril: VOA
2016/04/18 13:10
SEOUL, April 18 (Yonhap) -- Three Nobel laureates will visit North Korea late this month on a rare mission to engage the communist country through science and technology, a media report said Monday.
During their April 30 to May 6 trip, the Nobel prize winners will give lectures and hold seminars at the North's three most prestigious schools -- Kim Il-sung University, Kimchaek University of Technology and Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, according to the Washington-based Voice of America (VOA).
VOA made the report in an interview with Uwe Morawetz -- founding chairman of the International Peace Foundation, which is a Vienna-based non-political independent organization under the patronage of 20 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates.
The special program is held under the title "Bridges - The Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace" of the peace foundation, which has been striving to initiate a sharing of ideas and discussions.
The three Nobel winners to visit the North are Britain's Richard Roberts who won the 1993 prize for physiology and medicine; Norwegian Finn Kydland for economics in 2004; and Israel's Aaron Ciechanover for chemistry in 2004.
VOA said the laureates will enter North Korea on April 29 via Beijing. In Pyongyang they are scheduled to attend a welcoming banquet and will also visit the Mirae scientists street in Pyongyang; Mangyongdae, the birthplace of North Korean founder Kim Il-sung; and other places that symbolize advances made by the country.
For the ensuing four days from May 2, they will give lectures on economic policies and development as well as medical revolutions at the three universities.
They will leave Pyongyang for Beijing on May 6, and are scheduled to hold a press conference the next day to share their experiences in the isolated country.
VOA quoted Morawets as having said he visited North Korea six times in the past two years to prepare for the upcoming programs. The official held talks with the Swedish ambassador stationed in Pyongyang.
"Through the forthcoming event 'Bridges,' the Nobel laureates and North Korean educational organizations will bring together a long-term partnership while imbuing young North Korean generations with inspiration for future," the chairman said.
Morawets said, however, the forthcoming events will have nothing to do with political or diplomatic affairs.
Their visits to Pyongyang draw concerns, as the North is under severe international sanctions for its nuclear tests and missile launches.
"We will conduct the North Korea event in a calm diplomatic manner focused on economic policies and medical development without bringing out political statements," he said.
I’m going to bet some good money that at some point be arrested as spies during their visit
In a totalitarian regime, how do you separate the two?
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The world continue to provide useful idiots eager to become props for N. Korean propaganda. Old Jimmah is dying, only to be replaced by three more. I have dim view of these prize winners’ never-ending quest for more ego-stroking events all in the name of peace and humanity, which produce no desired outcome except boosting their ego.
The three “most prestigious” schools? Who knew that North Korea had any prestigious schools? And Kim Il-sung’s birthplace is a symbol of the advances the country has made?
One can only hope someone puts a propaganda poster in
their luggage.
Oh, oh...Aril is late?
Hoping against conception on my end...
;-)
Alas!
Poor Aril...
I knew her Horatio!
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
I second all that.
Bump!
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