10:00 AM
Opening Remarks
Kathleen Stephens
President & CEO, KEI
10:05 AM – 12:00 PM
Session I. North Korea: Collapse Theory, Mistrust, and Creditworthiness
Moderator
Troy Stangarone
Senior Director of Congressional Affairs and Trade, KEI
Paper
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”
Discussant: Victor Cha (Senior Advisor and Korea Chair, CSIS)
Paper
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”
Discussant: Mark Fitzpatrick (Associate Fellow and Former Executive Director, IISS–Americas)
Paper
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?”
Discussant: William Newcomb (Fellow, Center for Advanced Defense Studies; Chair, North Korea Economic Forum)
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:45 PM
Session II. U.S.-ROK Alliance and Inter-Korean Relations
Moderator
Yonho Kim
Nonresident Fellow, KEI
Paper
Jooeun Kim (Research Fellow, Georgetown University)
“Credibility in the U.S.-ROK Alliance”
Discussant: Scott Snyder (Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the Program on U.S.-Korea Policy, Council on Foreign Relations)
Paper
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)
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM
Coffee Break
3:00 PM – 4:40 PM
Session III. Practical Projects: DMZ and Public Health
Moderator
Kyle Ferrier
Director of Academic Affairs and Research, KEI
Paper
Young Hoon Kim (Professor, University of North Texas)
“A case of city development: Incubating Village for DMZ (Demilitarized Zone: Dream and Miracle Zone)”
Discussant: Seung-ho Lee (President, DMZ Forum)
Paper
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”
Discussant: David Hong (Assistant Professor, Stanford University Medical Center)
