After more than a year of escalating tensions over North Korea’s nuclear provocations and a war of words between Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump, we have seen an abrupt shift in strategy on the Korean Peninsula. Declaring himself content with North Korea’s nuclear weapons arsenal in late 2017, Kim Jong Un began 2018 with a new approach: diplomatic outreach. A summit between Kim and ROK President Moon Jae-in inside the Demilitarized Zone will be held later this month, the first inter-Korean summit in more than a decade.
On the eve of the summit between the leaders of the Koreas, several leading scholars will discuss this shift in strategy, including lessons from history, prospects for peace and reconciliation, and implications for the United States as President Trump prepares for his summit with Kim. The Wilson Center will host a discussion that will provide background and context as a season of summits between the North Koreans and its Korean War foes unfolds, with perspectives from Seoul, Washington and Pyongyang on how South Koreans feel about reunification what it is Kim Jong Un really wants from the US in return for giving up his nuclear weapons.
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Speakers
Joonho Cheon, Minister, Embassy of the Republic of Korea
Abraham Denmark, Director, Asia Program, Wilson Center
Jean H. Lee, Director, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy
Jung H. Pak, Senior Fellow, SK-Korean Foundation Chair in Korea Studies, Bookings Institution
Jake Sullivan, former National Security to Vice President Joe Biden