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Mr Tiedman served at the US Department of Defense as a policy advisor to the Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, as NASA’s lead to India, France, the United Kingdom and Australia, and as a Fellow in Crisis Management for the US Department of State.  Prior to HJS, Mr Tiedman served as a Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford and as an Adjunct Professor of Security Studies at. [...] The Kim family had effectively taken control of the leadership rights in the DPRK establishing the government as a hereditary dictatorship with the backing of China, whilst South Korea has taken the path of a democratic republic with a presidential system of government with the backing of the United States. [...] Reconstructing North Korea – The Research Project In 2019, the Korea Foundation sponsored the next phase of the research enabling HJS researchers and the four external contributors to examine particular areas of DPRK’s sectors where reconstruction might have the most success in the initial stages. [...] In the last quarter of 2020, each of the contributors revised their chapters to reflect the changes in the global economic and political environments largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [...] The result is that diseases (including tuberculosis (TB), malaria, hepatitis B and HIV) and longer- term health problems (including malnutrition from the famine in the 1990s) will increase the costs of rebuilding the economy whilst also reducing the potential size of the workforce.