The JoongAng - CSIS Forum 2022: The Alliance in Turbulent Times

Please join us virtually on November 30 (EST) / December 1 (KST) for the twelfth annual JoongAng-CSIS Forum. This year's Forum will feature a moderated keynote conversation with Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs at The White House; congratulatory remarks from Park Jin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea; and luncheon remarks from Philip Goldberg, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea. 

U.S. and South Korean officials, public opinion leaders, and corporate leaders will also convene to discuss the implications of the U.S. midterm elections on the United States' policy toward the Korean peninsula and the broader Indo-Pacific region, as well as to examine other core issues of the alliance, including North Korea and economic security. 

Agenda

7:30 – 7:35 PM | Opening Ceremony
Hong Seok-Hyun, Chairman, JoongAng Holdings; Chairman, Korea Peace Foundation
John Hamre, President & CEO, and Langone Chair in American Leadership, CSIS
Park Jin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea

7:40 – 8:00 PM | Moderated Keynote Conversation
Jake Sullivan, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, The White House

Moderator:
Victor Cha, Senior Vice President for Asia and Korea Chair, CSIS

8:00 – 8:20 PM | Break

8:20 – 9:40 PM | Session 1: U.S. Asia Policy After the Midterm Election
Moderator:
Yun Byung-Se, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea

Panelists:
Choi Wooseon, Professor, Korea National Diplomatic Academy
John Hamre, President & CEO, and Langone Chair in 
American Leadership, CSIS
Kim Jae Cheol, Professor, The Catholic University of Korea
Daniel Kurtz-Phelan, Editor, Foreign Affairs; Former member of the Secretary of State's Policy Planning Staff, U.S. Department of State

9:40 – 10:00 PM | Luncheon Remarks
Philip Goldberg, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea

11:30 PM – 12:50 AM | Session 2: Korea After the Seventh Nuclear Test?
Moderator:
Yoon Young-kwan, Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea

Panelists:
Victor Cha, Senior Vice President for Asia and Korea Chair, CSIS
Park Myung-Lim, Professor, Yonsei University; Director, Korea Peace Foundation
Kathleen Stephens, President & CEO, Korea Economic Institute of America (KEI); Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea 
Wi Sung-Lac, Secretary General, Korea Peace Foundation;
Former Republic of Korea Ambassador to Russia

12:50 – 1:10 AM | Break

1:10 – 2:30 AM | Session 3: Economic Security and the China Challenge
Moderator:
Bark Taeho, President, Lee&Ko Global Commerce Institute; Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University

Panelists:
Choi Seokyoung, Senior Advisor, Lee&Ko
James Kim, Chairman and CEO, AMCHAM Korea
Lee Jaemin, Professor of Law, Seoul National University School of Law
Susan Thornton, Senior Fellow and Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School; Former Acting Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of State

2:30 – 2:40 AM | Closing

This signature event will be co-hosted with the JoongAng Group.