Category: Geopolitical Affairs

Join us for a discussion on international economic sanctions on North Korea with William Newcomb, Fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies and former Member of the Panel of Experts on DPRK Sanctions at the United Nations, Darya Dolzikova of the Royal United Services Institute, and Cameron Trainer of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. In a conversation moderated by policy director Jonathan Corrado, the three experts discuss the role of sanctions in the negotiation process, proliferation finance, maritime evasion, implementation challenges, humanitarian exemptions, and multilateral coordination.

This program is supported by a grant from the UniKorea Foundation.

North Korean Sanctions and Adaptation
with
Darya Dolzikova, William J. Newcomb  and Cameron Trainer

Thursday, November 19, 2020 I 12 PM

The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

William J. Newcomb is a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) and a member of the National Committee on North Korea (NCNK). He is the former chair of the North Korea Economic Forum at George Washington University, Institute for Korean Studies, and was a Visiting Scholar at the US-Korea Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. In 2011 Mr. Newcomb was appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to serve on the Panel of Experts established pursuant to resolution 1874 (2009). He subsequently was reappointed to the DPRK sanctions panel for successive mandates as the expert on finance through June 2014, when he resigned. A former US government economist, Mr. Newcomb in 2008 retired from the Treasury Department where he was Senior Economic Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis. During 2003-2005, Mr. Newcomb was Deputy Coordinator of the State Department’s North Korea Working Group and alternate co- chair of the Inter-Agency North Korean Policy Coordinating Committee and helped devise, implement and coordinate the Illicit Activities Initiative.

Darya Dolzikova is a Research Analyst in the Proliferation and Nuclear Policy Programme at RUSI. Her research focuses on understanding the proliferation financing patterns of countries like North Korea and Iran, as well as best practices on countering proliferation finance (CPF) and sanctions evasion. As part of her contributions to RUSI’s work on CPF, she provides guidance to representatives of governments and financial institutions on strengthening their CPF and sanctions-compliance regimes. Darya holds a Masters degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University. 

Cameron Trainer is a Research Associate with the Washington, D.C., office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies a certified anti-money laundering specialist (CAMS). His work at CNS focuses primarily on monitoring North Korean sanctions evasion. He has particular expertise tracking vessels linked to North Korea and using publicly available information to trace North Korean financial flows. Cameron is a graduate of the University of St Andrews, where he studied International Relations and Russian.

Daniel Russel, Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute, and Susan Thornton, Project Director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale University, join Senior Director Stephen Noerper for a discussion on the upcoming US Presidential election, with an eye to US policy implications for Korea and Northeast Asia. This all-star session draws on the vast foreign service experience of both Russel and Thornton, who helped lead US policy respectively as Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

Looking Toward the US Presidential Election and Its Impact on Korea and Northeast Asia Policy
with
Daniel Russel and Susan Thornton

Thursday, October 1, 2020 | 12 PM

The Korea Society
350 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
New York, NY 10017

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS:

Daniel Russel is Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). Previously he served as a Diplomat in Residence and Senior Fellow with ASPI for a one year term. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State, he most recently served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to his appointment as Assistant Secretary on July 12, 2013, Mr. Russel served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Asian Affairs. During his tenure there, he helped formulate President Obama’s strategic rebalance to the Asia Pacific region, including efforts to strengthen alliances, deepen U.S. engagement with multilateral organizations, and expand cooperation with emerging powers in the region.

Susan A. Thornton is Project Director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security at the NCAFP, Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center. In 2018, she retired from the State Department after a 28-year diplomatic career focused primarily on East and Central Asia. In leadership roles in Washington, Thornton worked on China and Korea policy, including stabilizing relations with Taiwan, the U.S.-China Cyber Agreement, the Paris Climate Accord and led a successful negotiation in Pyongyang for monitoring of the Agreed Framework on denuclearization.