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Please join us for our annual ROK-U.S. Strategic Forum 2019. A timely discussion with current and former government officials, scholars, experts, and opinion leaders from the United States and Korea who will participate in a series of panel discussions to address the state of the U.S.-ROK alliance, the prospects for the peace building process on the Korean Peninsula, and the changing regional dynamics in East Asia and beyond.
This event will be co-hosted with the Korea Foundation, a leading organization of Korea's international exchange and public policy initiative.
You are also invited to join us after the ROK-U.S. Strategic Forum 2019 for a special 10 anniversary celebration of the CSIS Korea Chair, starting at 5:00 PM. For more information and to register for the celebration, please visit this page: https://www.csis.org/events/csis-korea-chair-10-year-anniversary-celebration
10:30 – 10:45 AM WELCOMING REMARKS
Ambassador Richard Armitage
President, Armitage International; Trustee, CSIS
Ambassador Lee Sihyung, President, The Korea Foundation
10:45 – 11:30 AM KEYNOTE ADDRESS & CONVERSATION
Congressman Ami Bera (D-CA), Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and
Investigations, House Foreign Affairs Committee;
Co-Chair of Congressional Study Group on Korea
Moderated by:
Ambassador Mark Lippert, Senior Advisor, CSIS Korea Chair; Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Korea
11:30 – 12:30 PM LUNCHEON
12:30 – 1:45 PM The ROK-U.S. Alliance for Peace and DenuclearizationSESSION I:
Moderator:
Mr. David Nakamura, White House Correspondent, The Washington Post
Panelists:
Ms. Joy Yamamoto, Director, Office of Korean Affairs, U.S. Department of State
Dr. Victor Cha, Senior Adviser and Korea Chair, CSIS; D.S. Song-KF Professor of
Government, Georgetown University;
Former National Security Council
Dr. Joon Hyung Kim, Professor, Handong Global University
Dr. Sang Hyun Lee, Senior Research Fellow, Sejong Institute
Ambassador Joseph Yun, Senior Advisor to the Asia Center,
United States Institute of Peace; Former Special Representative
for North Korea Policy and Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Korea and Japan, U.S. Department of State
1:45 – 2:00 PM COFFEE BREAK
2:00 – 3:15 PM Recasting and Forecasting of the Peace Building Process on the Korean PeninsulaSESSION II:
Moderator:
Ambassador Byungjae Cho, Former Chancellor, Korea National
Diplomatic Academy, Former ROK Ambassador to Myanmar and
Malaysia
Panelists:
Dr. Haksoon Paik, President, Sejong Institute
Dr. Ramon Pacheco Pardo, KF-VUB Korea Chair, Institute for European Studies
(IES-VUB); Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations,
King's College London
Dr. Jiyoung Park, Director and Senior Fellow, Center for
Science and Technology Policy, the Asan Institute for Policy Studies
Dr. Sue Mi Terry, Senior Fellow, CSIS Korea Chair; Former Senior Analyst,
Central Intelligence Agency; Former National Security Council
3:15 – 3:30 PM COFFEE BREAK
3:30 – 4:45 PM The Regional Dynamics: East-Asia and BeyondSESSION III:
Moderator:
Dr. Sue Mi Terry, Senior Fellow, CSIS Korea Chair; Former Senior Analyst,
Central Intelligence Agency; Former National Security Council
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