Past Event
Seminar

Korea in Great Transition? Diplomacy for Denuclearization and Peace-building

RSVP Required Open to the Public

Amid a flurry of summits, Professor Yoon Young-kwan, former South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, will provide a South Korean perspective of where we’re headed with denuclearization and peace-building on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, left, prepares to shake hands with South Korean President Moon Jae-in over the military demarcation line at the border village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone on April 27, 2018.

About

This Harvard Korea Working Group Speaker Series public event will highlight the insights of a foreign policy professional with a unique combination of experiences as a senior practitioner and a leading scholar.

With YOON Young-kwan, Former ROK Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade and professor emeritus at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Korean government (2003-04). Before joining the faculty of Seoul National University in 1990, he taught at University of California at Davis. He served as Korea’s eminent representative to and the Co-chair of the East Asia Vision Group II (ASEAN+3 Summit) from September 2011 to October 2012. He published several books and about 70 articles in the field of international political economy, Korea’s foreign policy, and inter-Korean relations, some of which appeared in World Politics, International Political Science Review, Asian Survey, Project Syndicate, etc.

Moderated by Dr. John Park, Director of the Belfer Center's Korea Working Group

This Harvard Korea Working Group Speaker Series event is co-sponsored by the Korea Institute and Belfer Center's Project on the Managing the Atom. The Harvard Korea Working Group acknowledges the generous support of the Korea Foundation.