Event Summary
North Korea's past and continued development of nuclear weapons raises fears of a potential nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and the specter of terrorists gaining access to weapons of mass destruction. It also represents a dangerous and disturbing breakdown in U.S. foreign policy. A new book by Charles L. "Jack" Pritchard, a former ambassador and special envoy for negotiations with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Failed Diplomacy: The Tragic Story of How North Korea Got the Bomb (Brookings Institution Press, 2007), offers an insider's view of what went wrong and allowed this isolated nation to develop nuclear weapons.
Event Information
When
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Where
Kenney Auditorium
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University
1740 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
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On July 17, Brookings, SAIS and the Korea Economic Institute hosted a discussion of Pritchard's new book, including a conversation on North Korea and the six-party talks. Richard Bush, senior fellow and director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at Brookings, introduced and moderated the discussion. Don Oberdorfer, chairman of the U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS, served as discussant.
Transcript
CHARLES "JACK" PRITCHARD
:
Let me start out by telling you what this book is about, and that is, it is about accountability. I wish I did not have to write it. I wish we were not in the position we are today where there is gathering in Beijing in the next couple of hours six parties trying to walk back the North Koreans' nuclear program that is out of the box and until this weekend, unmonitored. That is not the situation that we found ourselves in in 2001. So this book I hope is a contribution of how U.S. policy under the Bush Administration was developed, what went wrong, and where we are today.
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Participants
Discussant
Don Oberdorfer
Chairman, U.S.-Korea Institute at SAIS
Keynote Speaker
Charles L. "Jack" Pritchard
President, Korea Economic Institute