The Korean Peninsula Peace Process: Opportunities and Challenges

Source: nocutnews.co.kr

Dr. Chung-In MOON, Special Advisor to ROK President for Foreign Affairs and National Security

Thursday, January 16, 2020
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Main Conference Room (11360)
Young Research Library, UCLA
Los Angeles,

President MOON Jae-in has undertaken an ambitious Korean peace initiative since May 2017. Under this initiative, he successfully transformed the year of acute crisis in 2017 into a new beginning of peace in 2018. However as the Hanoi summit between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un in late February failed to produce any agreement, his peace initiative is facing major challenges. Whereas the U.S.-North Korean Nuclear talks have stalled, inter-Korean relations have been virtually frozen. More critically, the Korean peninsula is again at the cross-road of peace and heightened military tension and crisis. This talk will examine the nature of Moon's peace initiative, trace the causes of the current stalemate and crisis, and explore the future of denuclearization and peace on the Korean peninsula. 

Chung-In Moon is special advisor to South Korea's president for foreign affairs and national security. He is also a distinguished professor at Yonsei University, Krause distinguished fellow at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego, and editor-in-chief of Global Asia, a quarterly journal in English. He is Vice Chairman and Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Disarmament and No-proliferation and Chairman of the Korean Penisula Peace Forum. Dr. Moon was a special delegate to the first (2000), second (2007), and third Korean summits (2018) held in Pyongyang. 

koreanstudies@international.ucla.edu

Sponsor(s): Center for Korean Studies, UCLA International Institute