The Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA

"Korea and Asian Security in the 21st Century"

by

Mr. Chung-in Moon
Director
Institute for Korean Unification Studies
Yonsei University

Discussants:

Mr. Michael J. Green
Senior Fellow for Asian Security Studies
Council on Foreign Relations

Mr. Selig S. Harrison
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
The Century Foundation

Monday, December 13, 1999
12:00 to 2:00 PM

at

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Choate Room, First Floor
1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC

For information on this event please contact Seminar Program
at 202 296-6695 or at seminar@spfusa.org

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia"
Seminar Program is supported by a grant from
The Sasakawa Peace Foundation

About This Seminar

National division, the Korean War, and protracted military conflict on the Korean peninsula have long been considered a product of the Cold War bipolar structure. Likewise, strategic interactions among four major regional actors and the balance of power have dictated the nature of peace and stability on the Korean peninsula. Since the end of the Cold War, however, strategic parameters in the region have begun to change rapidly. Along with the changes, contending visions of future strategic position of a unified Korea have emerged. They include the maintenance of the status quo, aligning with the maritime power, aligning with the continental power, power projection as a middle power, and a permanent neutral state. The seminar will examine each of these future scenarios on Korea's strategic positioning in the post-unification period and make impact assessments of these scenarios on regional security.

About the Panelists

Main Speaker

Mr. Chung-in Moon is a professor of political sciences and director of the Institute for Korean Unification Studies, Yonsei University. Prior to joining the Yonsei faculty, he taught at the University of Kentucky, Williams College, the University of California at San Diego, and Duke University. Mr. Moon has published thirteen books and over 130 articles in edited volumes and such scholarly journals as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Asian Studies, and Journal of Democracy. His recent publications include Democratization and Globalization in South Korea, Democracy and the Korean Economy, History, Cognition, and Peace, and Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula. He currently serves as an advisor to the National Security Council of the Office of the President, the Ministry of National Defense, and the Ministry of Unification of the Republic of Korea.

Discussants

Mr. Michael J. Green is Senior Fellow for Asian Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also acting director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University (and a consultant to the Office of the Secretary of Defense). Mr. Green, who received his M.A. from SAIS in 1987 and his Ph.D. in 1994, is a specialist on U.S. foreign policy in Asia, Korean security, and U.S.-Japan relations. His most recent books and monographs include Arming Japan: Defense Production, Alliance Politics and the Postwar Search for Autonomy; State of the Field Report: Research on Japanese Security Policy (National Bureau of Asian Research); The U.S. -Japan Security Alliance in the Twenty-first Century (co-authored, Council on Foreign Relations); and a forthcoming co-edited volume, The U.S.-Japan Alliance: Past, Present, and Future (Council on Foreign Relations). He was also project director for the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force report, Managing Change on the Korean Peninsula.

Mr. Selig S. Harrison is a Senior Scholar of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a Fellow of The Century Foundation, and Director of the Foundation's Project on the United States and the Future of Korea. He has visited North Korea six times and met the late Kim Il Sung twice. In June 1994, on his fourth visit, he met Kim for three hours and won a public pledge of agreement to the concept of a freeze of the North Korean nuclear program in exchange for U.S. political and economic concessions. President Carter, meeting Kim Il Sung a week later, persuaded him to initiate the freeze immediately, opening the way for negotiations with the United States that resulted in the U.S.-North Korean nuclear agreement of October 21, 1994. Mr. Harrison is the author of five books on Asia and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Asian Studies, George Washington University.

About the Seminar Program

The "Asian Voices: Promoting Dialogue between the US and Asia" Seminar Program seeks to provide a forum for Asian voices to be heard within the Washington community-voices on a wide range of regional and global topics. The Seminar Program, however, will not be restricted solely to Asia-Pacific issues, or US-Japan relations, but will focus on the broader global questions that confront both parts of the world.

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