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SUMMARY:CKA x 38 North | Culinary Diplomacy</br>
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]\nJoin the Council of Korean Americans (CKA) and 38 North for a special evening exploring ways food shapes culture, identity, and connection.\nThe evening will feature a discussion on culinary diplomacy followed by a tasting menu prepared by North Korean escapees: a chef and a pastry master. Come hungry for both great food and meaningful conversation.\n\nEvent Details\nSunday, August 9, 2026\n5:30 PM – 7:30 PM\nIndustrious Thomas Circle\n1 Thomas Circle NW, Suite 700\nWashington, DC 20005\n\nFor any questions please contact the CKA team at info@councilka.org ( mailto:info@councilka.org ).\n\n\n\nFeatured Speakers\nNatasha Son\nNatasha Son survived one of the darkest journeys imaginable. After losing both parents\nto North Korea’s devastating famine, she spent years as a homeless kkotjebi (street\nchild), was trafficked into China, forcibly repatriated, brutally tortured, and imprisoned\nbefore making a daring escape to freedom. Today, she is the founder of Light of\nLiberty, where she advocates for North Korean refugees and human rights,\ntransforming a story of unimaginable suffering into one of extraordinary courage and\nhope.\nJohanna Mendelson Forman\nJohanna Mendelson Forman is an Adjunct Professor at American University’s School\nof International Service. She is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center,\nwhere she heads the Food Security Program. Her frontline experience as a policy\nmaker on conflict and stabilization efforts drove her interest in connecting the role of\nfood in conflict, resulting in the creation of Conflict Cuisine®: An Introduction to War and\nPeace Around the Dinner Table, an interdisciplinary course she teaches at the School of\nInternational Service at American University in Washington, DC. As an Adjunct\nProfessor leading this innovative curriculum, Johanna challenges her students to\nexplore new ways of looking at diplomacy, conflict resolution, and civic engagement to\nunderstand how food, as a form of Soft Power, can drive these issues in the 21st\nCentury. In establishing this link between food and conflict, Johanna developed a new\ninterdisciplinary platform examining why food is central to survival and resilience in\nconflict zones.\nJenny Town (Moderator)\nJenny Town is a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Center and the Co-founder and Director\nof 38 North. She is also a Research Fellow in the Department of East Asian Studies at\nthe University of Vienna, an Associate Fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns\nHopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Member of the National\nCommittee on North Korea, and an Associate Member of the Council of Korean\nAmericans. She serves on the Editorial Board for Inkstick, an online foreign policy\njournal for emerging scholars. She previously served as the Assistant Director of the\nUS-Korea Institute at SAIS (2008-2018) and an expert reviewer for North and South\nKorea for Freedom House’s Freedom in the World Index (2010-2023), where she\npreviously worked on the Human Rights in North Korea Project. She was named one of\nWorth Magazine’s “Groundbreakers 2020: 50 Women Changing the World” and one of\nFast Company’s Most Creative People in Business in 2019 for her role in co-founding\nand managing 38 North.\nHenry Hyun Seung Song (Interpreter)\nHenry Hyun Seung Song is the Founder and Executive Director of The Song\nFoundation for North Korea Human Rights (TSF). For more than two decades, he\nhas worked alongside North Korean defectors to advance freedom and human rights\nthrough international advocacy, public education, and strategic engagement with\npolicymakers, civil society, and the media.\n\n\n\nTasting Menu\nTasting Menu Prepared by Natasha Son\nNorth Korean-style picked vegetable banchan (장아찌)\nCorn noodle soup (spicy) (온면) sold in jangmadangs\nStir fried eggplant (가지 볶음)\nStir fried napa cabbage(배추 벆음)\nPickled vegetable (장아찌)\nFried corn kernel snack\nRice\nDesserts prepared by Young Mi Kim, North Korean escapee, former naval sonar\noperator)\nMadeleines\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]RSVP to Attend[/vc_column][/vc_row]\n
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LOCATION:Washington, D.C.
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