A Historical Perspective on Current U.S.-Korea Relations

Details: Category: One-day Conferences

November 5, 2004

This one-day conference explored current issues in the relationship between Korea and the United States. Thirty teachers from the greater New York area, along with several advanced students studying international relations at a local high school, registered for the conference. The lectures and instructors were: “The Changing Nature of U.S.-R.O.K. Relations” by Charles Armstrong, associate professor of history, Columbia University; “U.S.–DPRK Relations” by Donald P. Gregg, president and chairman of The Korea Society; and “The Political History of Korea’s Division” by Dae-Sook Suh, a visiting scholar at The Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies at Claremont McKenna College. Karl R. Newmann, a teacher from Westlake High School in Waldorf, Maryland, conducted a hands-on workshop entitled “Primary Sources Related to Early Contact Between Korea and the United States.”