Events
DPRK Calendar (Beta)
Thursday, Feb 23: Korea Foundation Junior Scholars Research Reports (Washington, DC)
Korea Foundation Junior Scholars Ria Chae and Chaeryung Lee will present the results of their research conducted at the Woodrow Wilson Center from July 2011 through February 2012.
Thursday, Feb 23: George Shultz, Sam Nunn, William Perry: The Nuclear Chessboard, 2012 (San Francisco, CA)
Three distinguished statesmen discuss their vision for international security in these precarious times. Secretaries Shultz and Perry and Senator Nunn will assess the current state of nuclear threats, including Iran's drive to build a bomb, the North Korean nuclear weapons program, and future prospects for limiting the spread of nuclear materials and eventually eliminating nuclear weapons.
Friday, Feb 24: Prospects for Rason Special Economic Zone (Washington, DC)
Please join KEI in its second Academic Paper Series seminar of 2012, where Andray Abrahamian, Executive Director of Choson Exchange, will discuss his analysis of the new developments in Rason and prospects for economic reform through this SEZ under the new leadership of Kim Jong-un.
Wednesday, Feb 29: Behind the Deadlock: The U.S., the PRC, the UK, and the Issue of POWs during the Korean War (Washington, DC)
Who should be responsible for the deadlock of the truce talks on the repatriation of the POWs during the Korean War? What were the motivations underlying the principle of non-forcible repatriation of the U.S.? What actually influenced the PRC to accept the truce? What were the roles of other powers besides the U.S., the PRC and the USSR? Youzhen Xu, ECNU-WWICS Cold War Studies Initiative Scholar from Wuhan University will discuss these issues based on a multilateral-interaction perspective and a multi-archival study of the roles of the U. S., the PRC and the UK, in particular, in the formation and resolution of the deadlock over the issue of the POWs during the Korean War armistice negotiations. Not only will she explore policies, focusing on their underlying considerations and thinking, but also the interaction of different policies within bloc and inter blocs, especially the British effort to break the deadlock in such context.
Thursday, March 1: North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: The Never-Ending Saga (College Park, MD)
Featuring Jonathan Pollack, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Friday, March 2: Countering Proliferation: The Challenge of the Nuclear Rogues (Washington, DC)
Nuclear proliferation and the actions of nuclear rogue states, in particular Iran and North Korea, continue to pose some of the toughest challenges facing U.S. policymakers. Iran is adding to its stock of enriched uranium and expanding its enrichment capability in the new Fardo underground facility. Additionally, the dialogue between Tehran and the United Nations Security Council Permanent Five plus Germany (the P5+1) remains stalemated, and Israeli leaders suggest the time for military action against Iran’s nuclear program is nearing. Meanwhile, senior U.S. and North Korean nuclear negotiators will soon meet to resume discussions halted by the death of Kim Jong Il, but Pyongyang's uranium enrichment activities continue to persist without interruption or any monitoring by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
Wednesday, March 7: The 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit: Peace and Security on the Korean Peninsula and Beyond (New York City)
Host: Center for Korean Research, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Co-sponsored by: The Korea Society, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Asia-Pacific Affairs Council, Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in New York
Thursday, March 8: Knowing North Korea: Humanitarian Insights (New York City)
The Korea Society continues its Knowing North Korea series covering economy and investment; nuclear and other security issues; refugees; NGOs and humanitarian affairs; energy, agriculture, and infrastructure development; and the roles of the international community. This 2012 installment begins with lessons in humanitarian affairs and suggestions for more constructive international involvement by Stanford University Pantech Fellow Katharina Zellweger, who has visited North Korea more than fifty times.
Friday, March 9: Unified Tuberculosis Control on the Korean Peninsula: Promise and Perils (Berkeley, CA)
Speaker/Performer: Stephen W. Linton, Chairman, Eugene Bell Foundation Sponsor: Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
Wednesday, March 14: Images of the Hidden City: Life and Art in Pyongyang, North Korea (Washington, DC)
Artist and Art Professor BG Muhn visited Pyongyang, North Korea on a recent research trip. He will talk about his observations of the people on the streets of Pyongyang during the celebration of their National Foundation Day as well as his encounters with schoolchildren, and he will show video clips from a rare interview of a Buddhist monk at the Sungbulsa Temple, an emotionally meaningful site for South Koreans.
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