BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Korean Peninsula Affairs Center presents: Joel Wit - Trump & \; North Korea: What We Know and Don't KnowJoel Wit\, Senior Research Fell ow\, Columbia University\, Weatherhead Institute for East Asian \;Stud ies \n\nThe\nTrump administration faces a number of serious foreign policy challenges\, with\nNorth Korea near the top of the list. Despite media pr onouncements to the\ncontrary\, rather than a hardline stance towards Pyon gyang\, President Trump may\nbe searching for a way forward other than imm ediately escalating\nsanctions--including against China—or seriously consi dering military action\nagainst the North. The presentation will explore t his possibility as well as\nhow events in South Korea\, China and North Ko rea might fit into this effort.\n\n\n\nJoel S.\nWit is concurrently a Seni or Fellow at the US-Korea Institute at SAIS and a\nSenior Research Fellow at Columbia University Weatherhead\nInstitute for East Asian Studies.\n\n\ n\nHe has\nserved as Senior Advisor to Ambassador Robert L. Galluci from\n 1993-1995\, where he developed strategies to help resolve the crisis over North\nKorea’s weapons program\, and as Coordinator for the US-North Korea Agreed\nFramework from 1995-1999\, where he was the official in charge of \nimplementation. He was also a key participant in the establishment of th e\nKorean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO).\n\n\n\nWit has \npublished numerous articles on Northeast Asian security issues. He has a lso\nwritten numerous articles on North Korea and nonproliferation and is the\ncoauthor of the book \;Going\nCritical: The First North Korean Nu clear Crisis \;(Brookings\nInstitution Press\, 2004). He received his M.I.A. from Columbia University in\n1979 and his B.A. from Bucknell\nUnive rsity in 1976.\n\nFor\ninformation on accessibility\, or to request accomm odation\, \;please\ncontact\nOana Zabava at\n(315)\n443-9248 or oazaba va@syr.edu. Sponsored by \;the Korean Peninsula Affairs Center &\; The East Asia Program at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs\n\n \n\n DTEND:20170426T180000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T092454Z DTSTART:20170426T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Korean Peninsula Affairs Center presents: Joel Wit - Trump & North Korea: What We Know and Don't Know UID:RFCALITEM638472866946171784 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Korean Peninsula Affairs Center pre sents: Joel Wit - Trump &\; North Korea: What We Know and Don't Know
Joel Wit\, Senior Research Fellow\, Colu mbia University\, Weatherhead Institute for East Asian \;Studies
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The\nTrump administration faces a number of serious fore ign policy challenges\, with\nNorth Korea near the top of the list. Despit e media pronouncements to the\ncontrary\, rather than a hardline stance to wards Pyongyang\, President Trump may\nbe searching for a way forward othe r than immediately escalating\nsanctions--including against China—or serio usly considering military action\nagainst the North. The presentation will explore this possibility as well as\nhow events in South Korea\, China an d North Korea might fit into this effort.
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Joe l S.\nWit is concurrently a Senior Fellow at the US-Korea Institu te at SAIS and a\nSenior Research Fellow at Columbia University Weatherhea d\nInstitute for East Asian Studies.
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He has\nserved a s Senior Advisor to Ambassador Robert L. Galluci from\n1993-1995\, where h e developed strategies to help resolve the crisis over North\nKorea’s weap ons program\, and as Coordinator for the US-North Korea Agreed\nFramework from 1995-1999\, where he was the official in charge of\nimplementation. H e was also a key participant in the establishment of the\nKorean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO).
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Wit has\npub lished numerous articles on Northeast Asian security issues. He has also\n written numerous articles on North Korea and nonproliferation and is the\n coauthor of the book \;Going\nCritical: The First North Korean Nuc lear Crisis \;(Brookings\nInstitution Press\, 2004). He received his M.I.A. from Columbia University in\n1979 and his B.A. from Bucknell\nU niversity in 1976.
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For\ninformation on accessibility\, or to request accommodation\, \;please\ncontact\nOana Zabava at\n(315)\n 443-9248 or oazabava@syr.edu.
Sponsored by \;the Ko
rean Peninsula Affairs Center &\; The East Asia Program at the Moynihan
Institute of Global Affairs
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