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A CNAPS Seminar

North Korea: 2007 and Beyond

North Korea, Asia, Northeast Asia


Event Summary

For over a decade, policymakers in Washington and other capitals have predicted the imminent collapse of North Korea's political, economic, and social systems. In the last 15 years, however, the regime has survived the loss of its patron states, the death of founding leader Kim Il Sung, massive agricultural failure, and a nuclear weapons dispute with the U.S.

Event Information

When

Thursday, September 14, 2006
12:00 AM to

Where

Falk Auditorium
Westin Grand Hotel
2350 M Street, NW
Washington, DC
Map

Contact: Brookings Office of Communications

E-mail: events@brookings.edu

Phone: 202.797.6105

In a public seminar hosted by Stanford University's Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC) and Brookings' Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies (CNAPS), leading experts discussed developments and trends in North Korea's grand strategy, economic, politics, and foreign relations.

This seminar is based on the book North Korea: 2005 and Beyond, edited by Philip Yun and Gi-Wook Shin, published in January 2006 by Shorenstein APARC, and distributed by the Brookings Press. Several speakers in this event contributed to the volume.

Transcript

RICHARD C. BUSH III: My name is Richard Bush. I am a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution and director of its Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, and it is my great pleasure to welcome all of you here today for our seminar on "North Korea: 2007 and Beyond."

We are very privileged at Brookings today to be cosponsoring this event with the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center at Stanford University.

Actually, the origin of this meeting is a chat that I had with Dr. Gi Wook Shin, the director of the Shorenstein APARC Center, back in April of this year. He told me about a volume that his center was publishing with The Brookings Institution Press — I didn't even know that — entitled North Korea: 2005 and Beyond.

You can see fliers about the book outside, and we welcome you to buy a copy. We are actually drawing on authors from that volume, but we decided that it would be a great idea for our two institutions to cooperate together and use the talent from that volume to put together a conference in Washington to talk about North Korea.

Now, I really cannot tell a lie. We did not know when we scheduled this conference today that President Roh Moo hyun was going to kindly do his meeting with President George W. Bush today, but so what.

But it is fitting and appropriate actually that we should meet on the same day of the summit because really North Korea is the nub of the issue. Right? The starting point of relations between the United States and South Korea is defining what is North Korea all about, what are its plans and intentions, and where is it going. The divisions between us really have to do with answering those questions. So our conference this morning and the issues we will address are highly relevant to the issues that I hope President Bush and President Roh will be discussing this morning.

So, without further ado, I would like to call on my good friend, Gi Wook, to say a few words and then introduce our first speaker.

Participants

Introduction

Gi-Wook Shin

Director, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University

Richard C. Bush III

Director, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies

Panelists

Bruce Klingner

Analyst, Asia Eurasia Group

Daniel Sneider

Associate Director for Research, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University

Gi-Wook Shin

Director, Shorenstein APARC, Stanford University

Philip Yun

Vice President for Resource Development, The Asia Foundation

Robert Carlin

Visiting Fellow, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University

Scott Snyder

Senior Associate, International Relations, The Asia Foundation

Wonhyuk Lim

Consultant, Knowledge for Development Program, The World Bank


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