Thursday, December 6, 2007
8:00 AM-8:30 AM ♦ Breakfast and Registration
8:30 AM-2:00 PM  ♦ Presentation and Q&A

Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street, New York City

2007 was a year of tremendous activity on the Korean Peninsula. In early February, the Six-Party Talks resulted in an agreement to de-nuclearize the Korean Peninsula. A major deadline in the agreement is looming, since North Korea has committed to disable its nuclear program and declare all of its nuclear weapons-related facilities and materials later this month. The United States and South Korea signed a landmark free trade agreement (FTA) in June. In October, the leaders of the two Koreas met for the first time at the second Inter-Korean Summit. In addition, South Korea will soon hold a presidential election, which has the potential to change the political landscape at home and abroad. Please join us for a discussion of these and other pressing issues.

Keynote Speakers:
His Excellency Lee Tae-sik, Ambassador of the Republic of Korea to the United States
Alex Arvizu, Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States Department of State

Session I: After the North-South Summit: Toward Reconciliation?
Charles Armstrong, Professor of History, Columbia University
Victor Cha, Professor of International Relations, Georgetown University
John Park, Director, Korea Working Group, USIP
L. Gordon Flake, Executive Director, The Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation (moderator)

Session II: Korea at a Crossroads: Domestic Leadership and Regional Stability
Haeran Lim, Visiting Fellow, The Brookings Institution
Scott Snyder, Senior Associate, International Relations, The Asia Foundation
J.J. Suh, Associate Professor and Director of the Korea Studies Program, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University
Charles Pritchard, President, Korea Economic Institute (moderator)

$50 for Korea Society Members, Asia Society Members and Students; $75 Nonmembers.

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