The Korean Peninsula and Strategic Risk with Bruce Klingner

Details: Thursday, November 14 , 2013 | 5:30 PM

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Event Link: Bruce Klingner is the senior research fellow for Northeast Asia in The Heritage Foundation's Asian Studies Center. Klingner’s analysis and writing about North Korea, South Korea, Japan and related issues are informed by his 20 years working at the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency. From 1996 to 2001, Klingner was CIA’s deputy division chief for Korea, responsible for the analysis of political, military, economic and leadership issues for the president of the United States and other senior U.S. policymakers. In 1993-1994, he was the chief of CIA's Korea branch, which analyzed military developments during a nuclear crisis with North Korea. Klingner, who joined Heritage in 2007, has testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. He is a frequent commentator in U.S. and foreign media, including television news programs for ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, Bloomberg and C-Span. His articles and commentary have appeared in major American publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor, Newsweek and Fortune, as well as in overseas outlets such as The Financial Times, Chosun Ilbo, Joongang Ilbo, Kyodo News and Nikkei Weekly. Klingner is a distinguished graduate of the National War College, where he received a master's degree in national security strategy in 2002. He also holds a master's degree in strategic intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College and a bachelor's degree in political science from Middlebury College in Vermont. He is active in Korean martial arts, attaining third-degree black belt in taekwondo and first-degree black belt in hapkido and teuk kong moo sool.
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Heritage Senior Research Fellow in Northeast Asia and blog-force Bruce Klingner opines on recent challenges on the Korean Peninsula and implications for those assessing strategic risk on the Peninsula and in Northeast Asia. Klingner is a former intelligence official, Intellibridge executive and Eurasia Group analyst, and is a frequent voice on Capitol Hill and in the media. Klingner offers a Studio Korea audience insight into how to analyze North Korea, identify tripwires, and weigh Chinese and other changes on the Peninsula.

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5:00 PM | Registration

5:30 PM | Discussion

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