Last December 10th, the international scientific community’s gaze was fixed squarely on Stockholm, where 2009’s science Nobelists were collecting their medals. But that same day, six diplomats were disembarking a plane in Pyongyang, North Korea, on a less ballyhooed event. They had traveled to the communist country to talk scientific collaboration.
Peter Agre, Johns Hopkins molecular biologist and Nobel Laureate, led the delegation. “There’s another North Korea that we’re not hearing about,” says Agre, who is also the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “I suspect [North Korean scientists] have strengths that we don’t hear about. That’s an area we need to explore.”
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