When:
Monday, April 5, 2021 8:00 PM
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9:30 PM
Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs
Korean Peninsula Affairs Center presents
The Biden Administration and
North Korean Policy: Promises and Limitations
Since the Hanoi setback in
February 2019, there has been no progress in resolving the North Korean
nuclear quagmire. However, the advent of the Biden administration
offers the hope of a negotiated settlement through creative diplomacy. Can the
Biden administration make progress? Its commitment to diplomacy
notwithstanding, there are some serious concerns such as the temptation to seek
a stable management of the North Korean problem through maximum pressure
and deterrence, a simultaneous pursuit of denuclearization and the human rights
agenda, the inertia-driven crime and punishment approach, and the chronic
intelligence failure on North Korea. Against this backdrop, I will come up with
some alternative policy suggestions.
Chung-in Moon
Chairman of the Sejong Institute
Distinguished Professor at the
National Defense University
Chung-in Moon is chairman of the
Sejong Institute, a leading private think tank, in South Korea and a
distinguished professor at the National Defense University. He is also the
Krause distinguished fellow in the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the
University of California, San Diego, and editor-in-chief of Global Asia,
a quarterly journal in English. He is vice chairman of APLN (Asia-Pacific
Leadership Network for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation). He was a
special advisor to the ROK president for foreign affairs and national security
(May 2017 to February 2021). He was dean of the Graduate School of
International Studies, Yonsei University and served as ambassador for international
security affairs of the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and
chairman of the Presidential Committee on Northeast Asian Cooperation
Initiative, a cabinet-level post. Dr. Moon was a special delegate to the first
(2000), second (2007), and third Korean (2018) summit meetings held in
Pyongyang.
He has published over 60 books
and 300 articles in edited volumes and scholarly journals. His recent
publications include Moon Chung-in's Future Scenario: Covid-19,
US-China New Cold War, and South Korea’s Choice (2021, in
Korean), Bridging the Divide: Moon Jae-in’s Korean Peace Initiative (2019),
Routledge Handbook of Korean Politics and Administration (2019), The
Future of East Asia (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2017), What Does Japan
Think Now? (in Korean 2013, in Chinese 2017), The Sunshine
Policy: In Defense of Engagement as a Path to Peace in Korea (Yonsei
University Press, 2012), Exploring the Future of China (in
Korean 2010 in Korean and 2012 in Chinese), East Asia Community: Ideas
and Debates (Keio University Press, 2010 in Japanese and Korean),
and The U.S. and Northeast Asia (Rowman & Littlefield,
2008). He also served as president of the Korea Peace Studies Association and
vice president of the International Studies Association (ISA) of North America.
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