November 15: Challenges of Reporting on Korea: U.S. & Korean Media Perspectives

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Challenges of Reporting on Korea: U.S. & Korean Media Perspectives

by US-Korea Institute at SAIS & United Press International

Wed, November 15, 2017, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM EST

Rome Auditorium

1619 Massachusetts Ave NW

Washington, DC 20036

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United Press International (UPI) and the US-Korea Institute (USKI) cordially invite you to a special event at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). The event will feature reporters from UPI, USA Today, Chosun Ilbo, and YTN, who will shed light on the role and perspectives of media coverage in the Koreas.

As tensions and rhetoric rise between North Korea and the United States, the role of the media is becoming even more important in shaping the public debate. The media’s reporting in Korea and the US is playing an active role in shaping viewpoints and driving public policy discussions. The event will center on US and South Korean-based media coverage of the growing threats with North Korea and examine the contrast between US-based media and those on-the-ground in South Korea.

The panel will include:

Michael Marshall (Moderator)
Elizabeth Shim, United Press International
Oren Dorell, USA Today
Kang In-Sun, Chosun Ilbo
Heejun Kim, YTN

Nov. 6: U.S. Public Diplomacy Outreach to North Korea

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U.S. Public Diplomacy Outreach to North Korea

Monday, November 6 at 12:00pm to 1:30pm

2101 E Street NW, Washington, DC

Join the University of Southern California Center on Communication Leadership & Policy, in partnership with the Public Diplomacy Council and the Public Diplomacy Alumni Association, for a discussion with with Insun Kang, Washington Bureau Chief, Chosun Media, Dong Hyuk Lee, Chief, Korean Service, Voice of America and Robert Ogburn, recently returned from the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, now Pubic Diplomacy Fellow at George Washington University. Please RSVP with name and contact information to FirstMondayForum.RSVP@gmail.com. Thank you!

October Students’ Voices Blog Post

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The GW Institute for Korean Studies wants to hear from you! Submit a blog post sharing your opinion about our monthly topic, and you will be featured on the Student Voices section of our website. This is a great way to make your voice heard, exchange ideas with other GW students, and add some published writing experience to your resume! Check out past Student Voices posts here.

September/October Topic: U.N. Sanctions on North Korea

Background: On Monday, September 11, the United Nations Security Council approved UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 2375, which imposed stricter sanctions on textile exports and oil in response to North Korea’s sixth nuclear test, conducted on September 3. This came just one month after the August 5 vote to impose UNSCR 2371 sanctions in response to North Korea’s two July inter-continental ballistic missile tests. North Korea has been subject to UN sanctions since its first nuclear test in 2006. Many see UN action as the best way to address the North Korean nuclear program, but some experts say the U.S. should focus on implementing its own unilateral sanctions instead of working with China and Russia at the UN. Others argue that no form of sanctions will be effective. After North Korea’s September 15 missile test, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said, “We have pretty much exhausted all the things that we can do at the Security Council at this point.”

Guiding Questions:

– Have UN sanctions have had an effect on North Korea’s nuclear program?

– How successful will the most recent UN sanctions be? What are the strengths and weaknesses of this resolution?

– Should the U.S. continue to work on UN sanctions resolutions, or focus on unilateral sanctions?

– Are there other, more effective ways to address North Korea’s nuclear program?

– What are the key challenges to addressing North Korea’s nuclear program at the UN? What are possible solutions?

– How has UN action towards North Korea changed over time? Are these changes positive or negative?

– What next steps should the UN Security Council take regarding North Korea?

The questions above are only suggestions; please feel free to take your own creative approach to the topic!

Submission Instructions:

– Posts should be approximately 300-1,000 words.

– Email gwiks@gwu.edu and provide your @gwu.edu email address, and we will send instructions for posting to the blog.

– Submissions will be accepted until Monday, October 30.

Please contact gwiks@gwu.edu if you have any questions.

Happy writing!

February Students’ Voices Blog Topic

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Topic: Pyeongchang Winter Olympics

Background: On February 9, the 2018 Winter Olympics will begin in Pyeongchang, South Korea, exactly twenty years after Seoul’s 1988 Olympics. The Pyeongchang Olympics have drawn attention for security concerns over the North Korean nuclear and missile threat and the inter-Korean talks culminating in plans for the two Koreas to march under a unification flag and compete on a joint women’s ice hockey team.

Guiding Ideas:

– What are your thoughts on the unification flag and joint women’s ice hockey team? What is the significance of these events for inter-Korean relations?

– How do the 2018 and 1988 Olympics compare? How do they reflect South Korea’s role in the international system?

– What factors will contribute to a successful or unsuccessful Olympics for South Korea?

– What can sports diplomacy through the Olympics accomplish? What are its limitations?

The questions above are only suggestions; please feel free to take your own creative approach to the topic!

Submit your blog

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November 13: From Cradle to Grave: The Path of North Korean Innocents

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From Cradle to Grave: The Path of North Korean Innocents

Committee for Human Rights in North Korea

Monday, November 13, 2017 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM (EST)

National Press Club
529 14th Street Northwest
Holeman Lounge 13th Floor
Washington, DC 20045

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AGENDA

Presenters:

Robert Collins, Author

Amanda Mortwedt Oh, Author

Discussants:

James Durand
Member of the Board of Directors, International Council of Korean Studies
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Korean Studies

George Hutchinson
Member of the Board of Directors, International Council of Korean Studies
Editor, International Journal of Korean Studies

Mark Tokola
Vice President, Korea Economic Institute

Moderator:
Greg Scarlatoiu
Executive Director, HRNK

Q&A

Closing Remarks

The event will be on the record.

Please email Rosa Park, HRNK Director of Programs, at rosapark@hrnk.org with any questions or concerns.

November 7: Pandemic, Proliferation, and a Pariah State: A Simulated Crisis in North Korea

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GSF 2017: Pandemic, Proliferation, and a Pariah State: A Simulated Crisis in North Korea

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 2:15 pm – 4:00 pm
CSIS Headquarters

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Outbreaks of virulent diseases, such as SARS, MERS, Ebola, and bird flu, have highlighted the global risks stemming from localized epidemics becoming pandemics. Concerns over rapidly spreading disease are increased for countries with limited health infrastructure, as is the case with North Korea. What is not often considered, however, is the complication of dealing with a public health crisis, the response to which may trigger a hard-security crisis. We will explore these and other issues in an afternoon crisis simulation rooted on the Korean peninsula.

Participants:
Dr. J.D. Crouch, II
President and CEO, United Service Organization; former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor

Dr. Julie Gerberding
Executive Vice President & Chief Patient Officer, Strategic Communications, Global Public Policy and Population Health, Merck; former Director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Hon. William J. Lynn, III
CEO, Leonardo North America and DRS Technologies, Inc.; former Deputy Secretary of Defense

Mr. John McLaughlin
Distinguished Practitioner-in-Residence at the Philip Merrill Center for Strategic Studies, SAIS; former Acting Director, Central Intelligence Agency

Gen. Larry Spencer (USAF, Ret.)
President, Air Force Association; former Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Air Force

Hon. Ellen Tauscher
Regent, University of California; former Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security; Former Member of Congress, Chair of Strategic Forces Subcommittee House Armed Services Committee

Dr. Sue Mi Terry
Senior Fellow, Office of the Korea Chair, CSIS; Senior Advisor for Korea, BowerGroupAsia

November 2: The United States in Asia: President Trump’s Choices and Challenges

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The United States in Asia: President Trump’s Choices and Challenges

Thursday, November 2, 2017, 9:00 am ET – 10:15 am ET

Center for American Progress Action Fund

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The Asia-Pacific presents tremendous opportunities for the United States to work with partners in Asia to strengthen the U.S. economy, uphold regional security, and solve regional and global challenges. But growing challenges—from tensions with North Korea to the rise of China, and from the future of regional economic growth to Southeast Asia’s backsliding democracy—threaten those opportunities. In particular, the current spectre of conflict with North Korea is endangering regional peace in ways unseen in years.

As President Donald Trump prepares for his first trip to Asia as President, these challenges, among many others, will loom large. Please join the Center for American Progress Action Fund Thursday, November 2 for a speech by U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) from 9:00-9:30 a.m. on U.S. policy in the Asia-Pacific. The speech will be followed by a panel discussion of U.S. policy in the region and what to expect from President Trump’s trip.

Introductory remarks:
Neera Tanden, CEO, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Featured remarks:
U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD)

Panelists:
Laura Rosenberger, Senior Fellow and Director of the Alliance for Securing Democracy, The German Marshall Fund

Brian Harding, Director of East and Southeast Asia Policy, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Kelly Magsamen, Vice President for National Security and International Policy, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Moderated by:
Michael Fuchs, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund

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November 29: Book Launch: King of Spies, The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea,

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Book Launch| King of Spies: The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea

Wednesday, November 29, 2017
3:30pm – 5:00pm

6th Floor Board Room

Wilson Center
Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza
1300 Pennsylvania, Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20004

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The Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program welcomes New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden for a book launch discussion of King of Spies, The Dark Reign of America’s Spymaster in Korea, an untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, who’s hidden work was key to U.S. military engagement in the Korean War, and its historical legacy today.

King of Spies is the story of U.S. Air Force Major Donald Nichols, an intelligence agent who operated in Korea for 11 secret years with his own army of spies, his own base, and his own murderous rules. Though he lacked the pedigree of most U.S. spies—Nichols was a 7th grade dropout—he quickly became a black ops phenomenon. He insinuated himself into the affections of America’s chosen puppet in South Korea, President Syngman Rhee, and became a pivotal player in the Korean War, warning months in advance about the North Korean invasion, breaking enemy codes, and identifying most of the targets destroyed by American bombs in North Korea.

Blaine Harden, (Author) Journalist, and former Tokyo bureau chief for The Washington Post

Patrick McEachern, (Commentator) Deputy Chief, Foreign Policy and Bilateral Affairs Unit, U.S. Embassy in Tokyo; Former North Korea Analyst, U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research

Christian Ostermann (Moderator) Director, History and Public Policy Program, Wilson Center

November 3: Freer Film Friday: Korean Art, Food, and Film

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Freer Film Friday: Korean Art, Food, and Film

Friday, November 3, 2017, 5 – 9 PM

Join us for the launch of the Freer|Sackler’s annual Korean Film Festival. Experience both traditional and contemporary Korean culture in this special after-hours event with music and exclusive curator tours of our newly installed gallery of Korean art. Enjoy small bites by local Korean chefs and a cash bar. At 7 pm, catch a special screening of Okja, Bong Joon-ho’s dystopian comedy about a race to engineer the perfect genetically modified pig. Meet the director in person and learn about his creative process.

Venue: Freer Gallery of Art
Event Location: Freer
Cost: Free and open to the public

October 30: The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and The Birth of Modern East Asia, 1876-1905

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The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and The Birth of Modern East Asia, 1876-1905

Mon. Oct. 30, 2017

4:00pm — 5:30pm

6th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center

Directions to the Wilson Center

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This summer, once again, the world’s attention was drawn to the Korean peninsula. Korea as the source of regional crisis and power politics in modern history has its roots in the latter decades of the 19^th century that saw profound changes to the existing East Asian order. Historian of Korea and East Asia Sheila Miyoshi Jager will explore the “Other” Great Game in East Asia when China, Japan and Russia fought over the impoverished, but strategically important Korean peninsula. Korea became an enduring international security conundrum and the regional instability that ensued not only fractured the previous international harmony within the Confucian world, but provided Western countries with both the incentive and opportunity to intervene more vigorously in East Asian affairs. From this globalization of politics the modern East Asian order was born, with results that affect international relations in the region to this day.

Sheila Miyoshi Jager is Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College. Her books include Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea, Ruptured Histories: War, Memory and the Post Cold War in Asia (with Rana Mitter), and Narratives of Nationbuilding in Korea: The Genealogy of Patriotism. Her current book project, The Other Great Game: The Opening of Korea and the Birth of Modern East Asia, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press. She is author of many articles and essays in both scholarly and popular publications, including the New York Times, Boston Globe, and, most recently, Politico Magazine.

The Washington History Seminar is co-chaired by Eric Arnesen (George Washington University) and Christian Ostermann (Woodrow Wilson Center) and is sponsored jointly by the National History Center of the American Historical Association and the Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program. It meets weekly during the academic year. The seminar thanks the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and the George Washington University History Department for their support.