As part of the Belfer Center's Korea Working Group series, a public panel discussion will be held with Ambassador Joseph Yun, Robert Carlin and Bonnie Glaser on "Engaging North Korea: What Are The Current Signposts Telling Us?" This session will be chaired by Dr. John Park.
This program is co-sponsored by the Korea Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School & the Harvard Korea Institute’s SBS Foundation Research Fund.
Speakers
Robert Carlin is a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, with a research interest in U.S.-North Korea relations. Carlin previously served as Senior Policy Advisor at the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization from 2002 to2006, where he led numerous trips to North Korea. He also worked within the U.S. government as Chief of the Northeast Asia Division in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research at the State Department from 1989 to 2002, a job he took on after over a decade of work as an exceptional analyst, an award-winning staffer at the Central Intelligence Agency. Carlin holds an M.A. in East Asian studies from Harvard University and a B.A. in political science from Claremont Men’s College.
Bonnie Glaser is a senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at CSIS, where she works on issues related to Asia-Pacific security with a focus on Chinese foreign and security policy. She is concomitantly a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. Ms. Glaser has worked for more than three decades at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. From 2008 to mid-2015, she was a senior adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, and from 2003 to 2008, she was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, as well as in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and International Herald Tribuneand in various edited volumes on Asian security. She is also a regular contributor to the Pacific Forum web journal Comparative Connections. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997. Ms. Glaser received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
Ambassador Joseph Yun is senior adviser to the Asia Program at USIP. As former US Special Representative for North Korea Policy, he is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on relations with North Korea, as well as on broader US-East Asian policy. His 33-year diplomatic career has been marked by his commitment to face-to-face engagement as the best avenue for resolving conflict and advancing cross-border cooperation.
Dr. John Park is Director of the Korea Project and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a Faculty Affiliate with the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He was the 2012-13 Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow at MIT’s Security Studies Program. He previously directed Northeast Asia Track 1.5 projects at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. These initiatives include the U.S.-China Project on Crisis Avoidance & Cooperation, the U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Dialogue in Northeast Asia, and the U.S.-China-Japan Dialogue on Risk Reduction and Crisis Prevention. He advises Northeast Asia policy-focused officials in the U.S. government.