Building a Peace Regime on the Korean Peninsula
The U.S. and South Korean dialogues with the North raise the important issue of what a long-term process of building a “peace regime” would look like and what the implications might be for the U.S.-ROK alliance. Up for debate is the fate of U.S. troops in South Korea and other security and diplomatic arrangements that have come to be taken for granted over the past 70+ years. It is hard to overstate the importance of these arrangements: They have underpinned the political and economic development of South Korea into one of the freest and most prosperous states in the world even while keeping that state in nuclear and military peril from the North.
Please join us for a special forum with leading U.S. and South Korean experts to discuss these issues and to understand where we are with North Korea today and the outlook of the future.
1:00 – 1:05 PM WELCOMING REMARKS
Dr. Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, CSIS; D.S. Song-KF Professor of Government and Vice Dean, Georgetown University; Former National Security Council
1:05 – 1:15 PM OPENING REMARKS
Alex Wong, Deputy Assistant Secretary for North Korea, U.S. Department of State
1:15 – 2:30 PM PANEL 1: The Peace Regime and U.S.-ROK Alliance
Moderator:
Mr. Scott Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Panelists:
Dr. Cho Seong-ryoul, Senior Adviser, Institute for National Security Strategy
Dr. Lee Sang-hyun, Senior Research Fellow, Sejong Institute
Mr. David Maxwell, Senior Fellow, The Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Dr. James Przystup, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Research, National Defense University
2:30 – 2:45 PM COFFEE BREAK
2:45 – 4:00 PM PANEL 2: U.S. and North Korea today and in the future
Moderator:
Dr. Sue Mi Terry, Senior Fellow, CSIS Korea Chair; Former Senior Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency; former Korea director, National Security Council
Panelists:
Amb. Mark Lippert, Senior Advisor, CSIS Korea Chair; Vice President, Boeing International; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
Dr. Jung Pak, Senior Fellow and the SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies, the Brookings Institution
Amb. Kathleen Stephens, President & CEO, Korea Economic Institute of America; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
Ms. Kelly Magsamen, Vice President, National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress
Co-Organized by Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Korea Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation
