Korea and Japan are at an impasse over territorial claims. What is the history of the island divide? Why are sentiments high? What are the domestic determinants of the current crisis in both Korea and Japan? How to bridge the dispute?
Please join us for a discussion and debate with Professor Alexis Dudden of the University of Connecticut, in conversation with Dr. Stephen Noerper, Senior Vice President of The Korea Society. Professor Dudden will provide historic background, and both will speak to contemporary fissures and ways forward in a lively session that brings respective concerns and audience questions to the fore.
Friday, November 2, 2012
5:30 PM | Registration & Reception
6:00 PM | Discussion
For more information, contact: Nikita Desai or call (212) 759-7525 ext. 355.
In this latest installment of The Korea Society’s highly popular series on China-North Korea relations, Harvard University Belfer Center Associate and MIT Stanton Foundation Fellow John Park reviews new developments, with an eye toward regime consolidation in Pyongyang, party-to-party relations, and the evolution of Chinese-style economic zones in North Korea. Dr. Park previously worked at the U.S. Institute of Peace, in Goldman Sachs’s public finance group, as project leader of the Harvard Kennedy School’s North Korea Analysis Group, and in the Boston Consulting Group’s financial services practice. His writings have appeared in the Washington Quarterly, Wall Street Journal Asia, Financial Times, Jane’s Intelligence Review, International Herald Tribune, and from Stanford University Press.
On October 19, 2012, H.E. Kang Chang-hee, Speaker of the Republic of Korea’s National Assembly, spoke to members and guests of The Korea Society about a range of issues, including the transfer of wartime operational control (OPCON), peaceful use of nuclear fuel, Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) and missiles, and the development and deepening of Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement mechanisms. The Speaker also addressed the rise of nationalism in Northeast Asia, difficulties with Korea-Japan relations and their impact on the United States, and what he sees as a paradigm shift in the Northeast Asian regional order.
The Council on Foreign Relations marks the release of Global Korea: South Korea’s Contributions to International Security with this special TKS discussion. The study examines South Korea’s increased participation in peacekeeping, counter-piracy, post-conflict reconstruction, and counter-proliferation. Scott Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy at CFR, argues that South Korea has built an impressive and multifaceted set of capabilities that has enabled it to make significant contributions to international stability and emerge as a global player.
How do U.S.-Korea relations figure in the presidential campaigns? What role will concerns about North Korea play in the U.S. elections and candidate positions? Michael Schiffer, Senior Advisor for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff, addresses the current state of play and approaches on Korea.
The Korea Society celebrates its 55th anniversary with the launch of a Legacies in Korea-U.S. Relations series, saluting senior contributors to the bilateral relationship in humanitarian affairs, policy, business, or academe. Join us for an hour with Dr. David Kim of Holt International.
What is the current state of malnutrition in North Korea and need for food? How should the international community respond? What measures are in place to make certain that food goes to those in need? Should nutritional assistance come with progress in negotiations or other openings? This fourth and final installment of this summer’s Knowing North Korea series features the head of the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in Pyongyang, Claudia von Roehl, who will address the fact and fiction surrounding food aid to North Korea. Von Roehl speaks to the state of need, developments on the ground and efforts to check divergence. On view are North Korean agrarian posters from the collection of Katharina Zellweger, Pantech Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Shorenstein Center for Asia-Pacific Research.
