BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 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 and East Asia Center Present: E ngaging North Korea: The Role of TrustAs North Korea’s increasingly stride nt rhetoric has been matched by South Korea and the U.S. in recent weeks\, the mistrust among all parties is glaring. What can be done? Some say “ju st ignore North Korea” while others call for more crippling sanctions or r egime change. But mistrust is a two-way street\, and to deescalate tension s on the Korean peninsula\, instead of “flight or fight” what is needed is “trust-building” based on a strategic\, steady commitment to engagement w ith North Korea by the United States and South Korea. Our speakers are in the forefront of those committed to engagement with North Korea. Their sto ries will illustrate the feasibility of not just deescalating the current tensions\, but also of building relationships based on trust that may ulti mately be the truest guarantor of peace and prosperity on the Korean Penin sula.Speakers:Katharina Zellweger has been the Pantech Fellow in Korean St udies at the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanfor d University since 2011. She is a senior aid manager with over 30 years of field experience in Hong Kong\, China and North Korea. Zellweger lived an d worked in Pyongyang from 2006-2011 as the North Korea country director f or the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).George Vitale is a master teacher of the Korean Art of Taekwon-Do. Following a 24-year car eer with the New York State Police\, George has devoted much of his time t o using Taekwon-Do as a cultural tool for soft diplomacy with the North Ko reans. George’s research interest is in the history of Taekwon-Do and the benefits of traditional training. He presented and successfully defended h is doctoral dissertation in Pyongyang in 2011.Moderator:Ambassador Donald P. Gregg currently is chairman of the Pacific Century Institute in Los Ang eles and chairman emeritus of The Korea Society in New York City. In 1951\ , he joined the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)\, and over the next quar ter century was assigned to Japan\, Burma\, Vietnam and Korea. He was awar ded the CIA’s highest decoration\, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal. I n September 1989\, Gregg began his service as the United States Ambassador to Korea. Prior to his departure from Korea in 1993\, he received the Dep artment of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.Lunch will be se rved. DTEND:20130426T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260514T163900Z DTSTART:20130426T160000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Korean Peninsula Affairs Center and East Asia Center present: Engag ing North Korea: The Role of Trust UID:RFCALITEM639143591402525218 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Korean Peninsula Affairs Center and East Asia Center Present: Engaging North Korea: The Role of Trust

As North Ko rea’s increasingly strident rhetoric has been matched by South Korea and t he U.S. in recent weeks\, the mistrust among all parties is glaring. What can be done? Some say “just ignore North Korea” while others call for more crippling sanctions or regime change. But mistrust is a two-way street\, and to deescalate tensions on the Korean peninsula\, instead of “flight or fight” what is needed is “trust-building” based on a strategic\, steady c ommitment to engagement with North Korea by the United States and South Ko rea. Our speakers are in the forefront of those committed to engagement wi th North Korea. Their stories will illustrate the feasibility of not just deescalating the current tensions\, but also of building relationships bas ed on trust that may ultimately be the truest guarantor of peace and prosp erity on the Korean Peninsula.

Speakers:

Katharina Zellweger has been the Pantech Fellow in Korean Studies at the Walter H. Shorenstei n Asia-Pacific Research Center at Stanford University since 2011. She is a senior aid manager with over 30 years of field experience in Hong Kong\, China and North Korea. Zellweger lived and worked in Pyongyang from 2006-2 011 as the North Korea country director for the Swiss Agency for Developme nt and Cooperation (SDC).

George Vitale is a master teacher of the Korean Art of Taekwon-Do. Following a 24-year career with the New York Sta te Police\, George has devoted much of his time to using Taekwon-Do as a c ultural tool for soft diplomacy with the North Koreans. George’s research interest is in the history of Taekwon-Do and the benefits of traditional t raining. He presented and successfully defended his doctoral dissertation in Pyongyang in 2011.

Moderator:

Ambassador Donald P. Gregg currently is chairman of the Pacific Century Institute in Los Angeles and chairman emeritus of The Korea Society in New York City. In 1951\, he join ed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)\, and over the next quarter centu ry was assigned to Japan\, Burma\, Vietnam and Korea. He was awarded the C IA’s highest decoration\, the Distinguished Intelligence Medal. In Septemb er 1989\, Gregg began his service as the United States Ambassador to Korea . Prior to his departure from Korea in 1993\, he received the Department o f Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

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