People’s Republic of China to support Korean Unification!

Calm down, it’s a simulation, not a news flash. The Patterson School of Diplomacy is staging a two-day crisis simulation gaming a cascade of events involving the Korean peninsula. There are three websites – International News Network, North Korea Information, China Now – posting blogs as players respond to each other. (Kim Jong-il is a failure, if B.R. Myers is right about his “feminine” qualities.)

The crisis begins with an accident/sabotage incident at Yongbyon. The status of 14 “double agents”/returnees is disputed by both governments, Patileaks (a pun on Wikileaks), and the twittersphere. There are riots in Pyongyang. Kim Jong-il himself might be dead.

I only wish I had the chance to do something like this as an undergrad. International Relations is unique in that it is both an academic and professional discipline, not just a classroom to office experience. The creativity that has to go into this sort of activity is a credit to the students and professors. Props to Robert Farley for the FYI.

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Filed under: Academia, East Asia, Korea, Social Science, USA Tagged: china, japan, north korea, patterson school of diplomacy, simulation, South Korea, unification