The hands feeding Kim Jong-un
Inside the secretive world of North Korean labourers sent abroad to bring home hundreds of millions of dollars to finance the Kim regime.
Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay / @JeanFrederic_LT
Freelance journalist
A fellow and principal adviser for communications and partnerships at The Montreal Centre for International Studies (CERIUM), Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay specializes in international affairs. Prior to this post, he had a 10-years career as an international reporter, contributing to many news media such as Le Devoir, L'actualité and Radio-Canada. He is an associate member of the Raoul-Dandurand Chair in Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM), and a fellow of Action Canada and of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. He also taught international relations the Université de Montréal and the Université de Sherbrooke, and was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C in 2011. Jean-Frédéric holds a B.A. in Political Science from Université Laval, a M.A. in International Relations from UQÀM and studied European institutions at the Université libre de Bruxelles.
Most Recent Posts
Why China Will Not Rise Peacefully
An interview with John Mearsheimer about China’s rise and why countries on both sides of the Pacific should be worried.
The Best in the World, For Better or Worse
South Korea scored high on the OECD PISA ranking, but Jean-Frédéric Légaré-Tremblay finds its students are paying a steep price for success.
The Rise of Mongolia
Once called the 16th Soviet Republic, Mongolia is now an emerging non-aligned power.