Robert Carlin, author, analyst and scholar at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, addresses how best to read Korean Peninsula developments, with an eye to changes in North Korea. Carlin served with the US State Department, visited the DPRK more than thirty times, and has tracked developments there since 1974. He is the co-author with the late Don Oberdorfer of the revised and expanded The Two Koreas (2013).
Reading the Two Koreas: Getting it Right
Part of The Analysts
In Conversation with Dr. Stephen Noerper , Senior Vice President
Robert Carlin
Analyst and Scholar at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC)
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11:30 AM | Registration
12:00 PM | Discussion
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About the Speaker
Bob Carlin is a Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and co-chair of the National Committee for North Korea.
From 2002-2006 he was political advisor to the Executive Director of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO), a multinational consortium formed to carry out several key provisions of the 1994 US-DPRK Agreed Framework. He led numerous KEDO negotiating teams to the DPRK, and was on the last KEDO ship to leave the North in January 2006, carrying the final contingent of KEDO employees and contractors back to South Korea.
From 1989-2002, Carlin was chief of the Northeast Asia Division of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. From 1993-2002, he served concurrently as senior advisor to the chief US negotiator to US-DPRK talks, and attended all of the major negotiations with the North Koreans during that period. From 1971-1988, he was an analyst with the CIA.
Carlin has visited North Korea over 30 times. His last visit was in November 2010 as part of a small group from Stanford that was taken to see the North’s uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon.
Of Interest:
Purchase The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History
Don Oberdorfer: History’s Gracious Scribe by Robert Carlin
Check out The Two Koreas policy book release event with Robert Carlin from December 10, 2013 here.