The Week Ahead in North Korea

The week ahead in North Korea

USKI Luncheon Series: Can the U.S. Stop South Korea from Going Nuclear?

• OCTOBER 24. 12:30 - 2:00 PM (EDT) in Washington, D.C.
• The US-Korea Institute at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University invites the SAIS community to a luncheon seminar with Dr. Boo-seung Chang to discuss the possibility of South Korea going nuclear.
• Speakers: Boo-seung Chang, Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University
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ICAS Fall Symposium: Humanity, Liberty, Peace and Security

• OCTOBER 25, 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM (EDT) in Washington, D.C.
• Should Washington Talk to Pyongyang in the New Administration? The Institute for Corean-American Studies (ICAS) will host a symposium regarding other various issues on the Korean peninsula and in the context of U.S. national security. 
• Speakers: Michael J. Green, Senior Vice President for Asia and Japan Chair for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); John Hamre, President and CEO of CSIS; David Shambaugh, Professor of Political Science & International Affairs at George Washington University; Tong Kim, ICAS Fellow, Washington Correspondent and Columnist for the Korea Times.
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Changing American Perceptions of North Korea since 1948

• OCTOBER 25, 2:00 PM (EDT) in New York, N.Y.
• This presentation will specifically argue that policymakers and journalists, among other observers in U.S. society, primarily made sense of the DPRK’s often-brutal actions by describing it as either a puppet of the Soviet Union and China or as an irrational actor incapable of pragmatic dialogue.  
• Speakers: Brandon K. Gauthier, PhD in Modern History at Fordham University
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The Evolution of North Korean Human Rights Discourse and Activism

• OCTOBER 27, 8:45 AM - 4:30 PM (EDT) in Washington, D.C.
• This conference turns the spotlight on a network of transnational activists in an effort to understand the evolution of North Korean human rights discourse following the 2014 United Nations Commission of Inquiry Report : the contentions, the hurdles and the assumptions underpinning it.
• Speakers: Andrew Yeo, Associate Professor of Politics at the Catholic University of America; Rajiv Narayan, Senior Consultant Adviser at Rafto Foundation for Human Rights; Patricia Goedde, Associate Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, School of Law
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A Peninsula Divided: North Korea and Security in East Asia

• OCTOBER 28, 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM (PST) in Los Angeles, CA
• What is the current security situation on the Korean Peninsula? How is U.S. policy impacted by China’s relationship with North Korea? Such questions and more on the security issues and tensions on the Korean Peninsula in the wake of North Korea's continued nuclear development will be addressed in a breakfast discussion hosted in partnership by the Pacific Council and the Wilson Center. 
• Speakers: David Kang, Professor of International Relations and Business at the University of Southern California; James Person, Deputy Director, History and Public Policy Program at the Wilson Center
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“Winning the War with Goats and Pigs: United Nations Resource Development Programs in the Republic of Korea, 1950-1953”

• NOVEMBER 2, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT) in New York, N.Y. 
• A lecture on an article that examines three specific UN programs in South Korea between 1950 and 1953, illustrating that modernization and military success were mutually reinforcing and premised on similar assumptions about rationalization that underlay earlier modernization schemes.
• Speakers: Lisa Brady, Professor at Boise State University; Charles K. Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences at Columbia University
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My Journey at the Nuclear Brink

• OCTOBER 24, 7:00 PM (EDT) in New York, N.Y.
• In his book, William J. Perry describes his lifelong passion to prevent nuclear war, including his experience as Secretary of Defense from 1994 to 1997.
• Speakers: William J. Perry, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and 19th Secretary of Defense of U.S. 
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Reflections and Observations on American Foreign Policy: Stephen Bosworth’s Legacy

• OCTOBER 25, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (PST) in Stanford, CA
• A panel discussion of the themes on Stephen Bosworth’s Payne lectures and challenges facing U.S. diplomacy, particularly in East Asia, and how to address them.
• Speakers: Sung Kim, U.S. Special Envoy for North Korea and Ambassador-designate to Philippines; Michael Armacost, Former U.S. Ambassador to Japan and Philippines; Kathleen Stephens, Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
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“Beyond the ‘San Francisco System:’ Seeking a Peace Regime in East Asia”

• OCTOBER 28 - 29, (October 28: 8:30AM – 6:00 PM,  October 29: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM) in New York, N.Y.
• Co-hosted by The Northeast Asian History Foundation and Co-sponsored by the Center for Korean Research, Columbia School of International and Public Affairs and the Kim Koo Foundation, This event is the first in a planned two-part conference that will bring together scholars and experts on history, politics and international law from the US, Japan, Korea, and China to discuss the legacies and problems of the San Francisco Treaty system and the search for an appropriate peace regime for contemporary East Asia.
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Nuclear Arms Control Choices for the Next Administration

• OCTOBER 31, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (EDT) in Washington, D.C.
• The Brookings Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Initiative will host a discussion on nuclear arms control choices for the next administration.
• Speakers: Michael E. O’Hanlon, Senior Fellow and Director of Research of the Foreign Policy Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence; Steven Pifer, Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, U.S. and Europe
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