The Korean Peninsula and U.S.-ROK Alliance: Credibility, Connectivity, and Practicality

Myung-koo Kang (Professor, Baruch College, CUNY) “Revisiting the Collapse Thesis of North Korea: The Origins and Its Evolution in the U.S. Policymaking Community”

Rorry Daniels (Deputy Project Director of the Forum on Asia-Pacific Security, National Committee on American Foreign Policy) “Addressing Strategic Mistrust Toward North Korea in the United States Policy Community”

Thomas Byrne (President, The Korea Society) and Jonathan Corrado (Associate Policy Director, The Korea Society “Making North Korea Creditworthy: What will it take for North Korea to finance its post-nuclear development?”

Gregg Brazinsky (Professor, George Washington University) and Joongho Kim (Visiting Scholar, George Washington University) “Global Connectivity of Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation”

Discussant: William Brown (Non-resident Fellow, Korea Economic Institute of America; Principal, Northeast Asia Economics and Intelligence Advisory, LLC)

Discussant: William Brown (Non-resident Fellow, Korea Economic Institute of America; Principal, Northeast Asia Economics and Intelligence Advisory, LLC)

Young Hoon Kim (Professor, University of North Texas) “A case of city development: Incubating Village for DMZ (Demilitarized Zone: Dream and Miracle Zone)”

Kee Park (Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School) and Ramon Pacheco Pardo (KF-VUB Korea Chair, Institute for European Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) “Injuries in the DPRK: The Looming Epidemic”