Korea's Growing Role in Asia : Regional Cooperation & National Unification

Date: 

Wednesday, October 28, 2015, 4:10pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

Ash Center, 124 Mount Auburn Street, 2nd Floor North, Cambridge, MA

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation cordially invites you to a discussion with the Dr. Jin Park, a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars entitled Korea's Growing Role in Asia: Regional Cooperation & National Unification.

South Korea's geopolitical position dictates that the country needs to maintain a strong alliance with the U.S. while exploring a harmonious partnership with China to protect and pursue its national interests. Preventing excessive  conflicts between China and Japan also serves the interests of South Korea in terms of preserving peace and stability in Northeast Asia. President Park Geun-hye has visited Beijing recently to attend a historic ceremony to commemorate the anti-Japanese War while proposing to resume the triangular summit diplomacy among Korea, China, and Japan.

President Park is also scheduled to visit Washington. D.C. to meet with President Obama to discuss issues of mutual concern including the denuclearization of North Korea. On the Korean Peninsula, she is pursuing a trust-building process with North Korea to achieve the goal of peaceful national unification despite North Korea's unpredictable brinkmanship. How does the U.S. policy of rebalance to Asia work to promote peace and stability in Korea and the region? What could be achieved in the summit meeting between President Park and President Obama? Will China play a more active role to dissuade North Korea from dangerous course of action? What are the impacts of Japan's proactive foreign and security policy under Abe government on the regional strategic environment?

Cosponsored by Harvard University Korea Institute

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