The annual Harvard Korean Security Summit brings together top researchers of Korean security issues, senior ROK and U.S. practitioners, and next generation scholars. Convened by the Belfer Center’s Korea Project, the Summit is the anchor event for Korean security studies at Harvard University. This year we will be hosting the full set of Summit events via Webinar from February 8-10, 2021. Our theme of “Korea – An Oracle of Global Trends” explores how non-traditional and traditional security challenges evolve quickly on the Korean Peninsula and provide broader insights for the global community. A separate RSVP is required for each day.
Register for Day 2: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_OKrM5LsEQbeTqZxBYPl3iA
Traditional Security Challenges (A)
Tuesday, 9 February 2021
3:30 - 3:35pm ET: Day 2 Overview Remarks - Dr. John Park (Director, Korea Project, Harvard Belfer Center)
3:35 - 5:20pm ET: Panel 1: Reading Kim Jong Un
Panelists
- Anna Fifield (Author, The Great Successor: The Divinely Perfect Destiny of Brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un)
- Dr. Van Jackson (Author, On the Brink: Trump, Kim, and the Threat of Nuclear War)
- Ankit Panda (Author, Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea)
- Moderator: Robin Wright (Contributing Writer, The New Yorker & U.S. Institute of Peace-Wilson Center Distinguished Fellow)
5:20 - 5:50pm ET: Break
5:50 - 7:25pm ET: Panel 2: Negotiating with a Nuclear North Korea – What’s Old? What’s New?
Panelists
- Prof. David Kang (Director, Korean Studies Institute, University of Southern California)
- Andrew Kim (Fellow, Korea Project, Harvard Belfer Center & Former Assistant CIA Director for Korea Mission Center)
- Dr. Jina Kim (Research Fellow, Korea Institute for Defense Analyses)
- Dr. Gary Samore (Senior Fellow, Harvard Belfer Center & Director, Crown Center, Brandeis University)
- Susan Thornton (Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School & Former Acting Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, State Department)
- Moderator: Dr. Francesca Giovannini (Executive Director, Managing the Atom Project, Harvard Belfer Center)
7:25 - 7:30pm ET: Day 2 Wrap-Up Remarks - Dr. John Park (Director, Korea Project, Harvard Belfer Center)