The Centre for Strategic Studies and the Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Institute for International Affairs with the Embassy of the Republic of Korea
are pleased to invite you to:
The North Korean Nuclear Issue:
Is a Diplomatic Solution Possible?
Friday 3 November 2017 12:00-1.30pm
Hunter Council Chamber
Level 2, Hunter Building, Kelburn Parade Victoria University of Wellington
Event followed by a reception
kindly hosted by the Embassy of the Republic of Korea
Speakers include (bios attached):Yoon Young-kwan, Professor Emeritus at Department of Political Science and International Relations, Seoul National University and former ROK Foreign Minister.
Van Jackson, Defence & Strategy Fellow in the Centre for Strategic Studies and Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University.
Ben King, Deputy Secretary of the Americas and Asia Group, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Please register HERE by 30 October 2017
(event is FREE but registration required)Enquires contact: Andy Warden, Events Member, NZIIA Wellington Branch, Tel: 04-917-0539, Email: andykwarden@gmail.com or contact the Centre for Strategic Studies, Tel: 04-463-5434, Email: css@vuw.ac.nz
The North Korean Nuclear Issue: Is a Diplomatic Solution Possible?
SPEAKERS:
Yoon Young-kwan is a Professor Emeritus at 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 for 3 years. 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 has published several books and about 70 articles in the field of international political economy, Korea’s foreign policy, and inter-Korean relations.
Van Jackson is the Defence & Strategy Fellow in the Centre for Strategic Studies and Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University. Van is the author Rival Reputations: Coercion and Credibility in US- North Korea Relations (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Prior to joining Victoria, Van taught courses on Asian security, U.S. foreign policy, and Korea and Japan at Georgetown University, Hawaii Pacific University, the Catholic University of America, and the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. He has held policy research appointments with the Center for a New American Security, the Council on Foreign Relations, and Pacific Forum CSIS.
Ben King is Deputy Secretary of the Americas and Asia Group, a role he commenced in September 2017. Prior to this role, Ben was New Zealand’s Ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia and the Lao Peoples’ Democratic Republic.
Ben was also the Foreign Policy Advisor at the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Ben has had postings at the New Zealand Embassies in Washington DC and in Riyadh, and at the New Zealand High Commission in Canberra. Earlier in his career, Ben was Private Secretary and Press Secretary to the Minister for International Trade. Ben has a Master’s in Public Administration from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Honours, First Class) from the University of Waikato.
