Luncheon Forum

Defying international concerns and pressures, North Korea launched a long-range missile on April 5. Although Pyongyang claims that the Unha-2 rocket was designed to put a communication satellite into orbit, the international community has denounced the launch citing its technological implications for intercontinental ballistic missiles and its defiance of U.N. Security Resolution 1718. The Lee Myung-Bak government reacted quickly by calling for a new tough U.N. Security Council resolutionto sanction the North as well as by making a full commitment to the Proliferation Security Initiative. The general public in South Korea, however, appears nonplussed by the launch. Chung-in Moon will analyze the motives and consequences of the missile launch and explore its implications for the Six-Party Talks process and inter-Korean relations.

Monday, April 20, 2009

with

Chung-in Moon
Professor of Political Science, Yonsei University
Former Ambassador for International Security Affairs, Republic of Korea

About the Speaker
Chung-in Moon is a professor of political science at Yonsei University and editor-in-chief of Global Asia, a new quarterly magazine. He served as dean of Yonsei’s Graduate School of International Studies. He was also chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Cooperation Initiative, a cabinet-level post, and ambassador for International Security Affairs with the ROK Ministryof Foreign Affairs and Trade. He has published over 40 books and 230 articles in edited volumes and such scholarly journals as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and the World Development. His recent publications include The United States and Northeast Asia: Debates, Issues, and New Order, Handbook of Korean Unification, Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula, and Ending the Cold War in Korea. He attended the first and second Pyongyang Korean summit as a special delegate. He was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, D.C. He served as vice president of the International Studies Association (ISA) of North America and president of the Korea Peace Research Association. He is currently a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy (Los Angeles), the Institute of International Strategic Studies (London), and fellow of the Club of Madrid. He is an ASEAN Regional Forum-Expert and Eminent Person (ARF-EEP) representing South Korea and served as co-chair of the first and second ARF-EEPs meetings in June 2006 and February 2007. He is a board member of the Korea Foundation, the Sejong Foundation, the East Asia Foundation, the International Peace Foundation, and the Pacific Century Institute.

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