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 3: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KpIZ0IPKRTO1xBsqCi4kcQ
Traditional Security Challenges (B)
Wednesday, 10 February 2021
3:30 - 3:35pm ET: Day 3 Overview Remarks - Dr. John Park (Director, Korea Project, Harvard Belfer Center)
3:35 - 5:20pm ET: Panel 1: Advancing the U.S.-ROK Alliance in the 2020s
Panelists
- Dr. Victor Cha (Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies & D.S Song-KF Chair, Georgetown University)
- Abraham Denmark (Director, Asia Program, Wilson Center & Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs)
- Ambassador Kathleen Stephens (President and CEO, Korea Economic Institute & Former U.S. Ambassador to the ROK)
- Prof. Hyon Joo Yoo (Department of Political Science, Trinity University)
- Prof. Young-kwan Yoon (Senior Visiting Scholar, Korea Project, Harvard Belfer Center & Former ROK Minister of Foreign Affairs)
- Moderator: Victoria Kim (Seoul Correspondent, Los Angeles Times)
5:20 - 5:30pm ET: Break
5:30 - 5:35pm ET: Speaker Introduction - Dr. John Park (Director, Korea Project, Harvard Belfer Center)
5:35 - 5:50pm ET: Keynote Address - Sydney Seiler (National Intelligence Officer for North Korea, Office of the Director of National Intelligence) – TBC
5:50 - 7:20pm ET: Panel 2: Deterring a Nuclear North Korea – What’s Old? What’s New?
Panelists
- Prof. Graham Allison (Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School)
- General (ret.) Vincent Brooks (Senior Fellow, Harvard Belfer Center & Former Commander, U.S. Forces Korea)
- Dr. Oriana Skylar Mastro (Center Fellow, Freeman Spogli institute for International Studies, Stanford University)
- Dr. Sue Mi Terry (Senior Fellow, Korea Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies)
- William Tobey (Senior Fellow, Harvard Belfer Center & Former Deputy Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration)
- Moderator: David Sanger (Chief National Security Correspondent, The New York Times)
7:20 - 7:30pm ET: Closing Remarks - Dr. John Park (Director, Korea Project, Harvard Belfer Center)