The Second Conference on Contemporary Korean Politics

January 25, 2003

Kresge Classroom, R. David Thomas Conference Center, Duke University

organized by

Emerson Niou
Coordinator
Korea Forum
Duke University

co-sponsored by
Program in Asian Security Studies, Duke University
Youngil Enterprise, Korea
Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University

Conference Program

9:00-9:30 Welcoming Remarks:

Professor Emerson Niou, Duke University
Dr. Bong-hwa Jung, Kyungnam University, Korea

9:30-12:00 Panel 1: Coping with North Korea’s Nuclear Threat

Chair: Professor Peter Feaver, Duke University

Speakers:

1. Mitchell Reiss, College of William & Mary
“Understanding The North Korean Nuclear Crisis: What Went Wrong?”

2. Leon Sigal, Social Science Research Council
“North Korea Is No Iraq: Negotiating a Way Out of Confrontation with Pyongyang”

3. Professor Chung-in Moon, Yonsei University, Korea
“Managing the North Korean Nuclear Crisis: A South Korean Perspective”

1:30-3:00 Panel 2: Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Jong-il: The Two Unknowns

Chair: Professor Sung Gul Hong, Kookmin University, Korea

Speakers:

1. Professor Chaibong Hahm, Yonsei University, Korea
“Understanding Roh Moo-hyun”

2. Mr. Sung-min Jang, Former National Assembly Member, Korea
“Understanding Kim Jong-il”

3:30-5:00 Panel 3: Military and Economic Solutions to Korean Unification

Chair: Professor Timothy McKeown, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Speakers:

1. General Jae Chang Kim (retired)
“The Korea-US alliance: 50 years and Furture”

2. Taik-Young Hamm, Kyungnam University
“Engagement Policy and North-South Korean Relations: A Korean Perspective”

Leon Sigal
Director, Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project
sigal@ssrc.org
Leon V. Sigal is director of the Northeast Asia Cooperative Security Project at the Social Science Research Council in New York. His book, Disarming Strangers: Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea, published by Princeton University Press, was one of five nominees for the Lionel Gelber Prize as the most outstanding book in the field of international relations for 1997-98 and was named 1998 book of distinction on the practice of American diplomacy by the American Academy of Diplomacy. His most recent book, Hang Separately: Cooperative Security Between the United States and Russia, 1985-1994, was published by the Century Foundation last year. Sigal was a member of the editorial board of The New York Times from 1989 until 1995. In 1979 he served as International Affairs Fellow in the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs at the Department of State and in 1980 as Special Assistant to the Director. He was a Rockefeller Younger Scholar in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution from 1972-1974 and a guest scholar there in 1981-1984. From 1974 to 1989 he taught international politics at Wesleyan University as a professor of government. He was an adjunct professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs from 1985 to 1989 and from 1996 to 2000, and visiting lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School in 1988 and 2000.

Mitchell B. Reiss
Dean of International Affairs and
Director of the Reves Center for International Studies
College of William & Mary
reiss@wm.edu
Mitchell Reiss is the dean of international relations, director of the Reves Center, and professor of law at the College of William and Mary. Prior to joining William and Mary, Reiss helped start KEDO (the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization), a multinational organization dealing with North Korea. His government service includes work as special assistant to the national security adviser at the White House and consultant to the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, the State Department, the Congressional Research Service, and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Reiss has been a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and worked as an attorney at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Bridled Ambition: Why Countries Constrain Their Nuclear Capabilities (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1995) and Without the Bomb: The Politics of Nuclear Nonproliferation (Columbia University Press, 1988), and he has authored over 50 articles on international security and arms control issues. He has testified before Congress on U.S. foreign policy issues, appeared on national and international radio and television programs, and delivered talks before academic, military, and civilian audiences in East Asia, the former Soviet Union, Europe, South Asia, and the United States. He holds a B.A. from Williams College, an M.A.L.D. from Tufts University, a Ph.D. from Oxford University, and a J.D. from Columbia University.

Chung-in Moon
Professor of Political Science
Yonsei University
cimoon@yonsei.ac.kr
Prior to joining to the Yonsei faculty, he taught at the University of Kentucky, Williams College, and University of California, San Diego. He has published fifteen books and over 150 articles in edited volumes and such scholarly journals as World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and Journal of Asian Studies. His most recent publications include Kim Dae-jung Government and Sunshine Policy, and Korean Politics: An Introduction, and Arms Control on the Korean Peninsula. He accompanied President Kim Dae-jung to the historic Pyongyang Korean summit in June 2000 and currently serves as an advisor to the South Korea's National Security Council, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Ministry of National Defense.

Jae Chang Kim
General (retired), Republic of Korea
jckim_kor@yahoo.co.kr

General(R) Kim, Jae Chang was born in Andong Korea on 5 March 1940. He graduated from the Korean Military Academy in 1962 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Republic of Korea Army. He had served in the Korean Army for 32 years until he was retired from active service in April 1994. His major assignments include commanding general of 9th Infantry Division, Director of Operations in Joint Chiefs of Staff, Commanding General of 6th Corps, Assistant Minister for Policy, Vice Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Deputy Commander in Chief of Korea and United States Combined Forces Command. He graduated from College of Engineering, Seoul National University, majoring Electronics and got the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in 1966. He also graduated from the United States Naval Postgraduate School, majoring Operations Research and System Analysis, and got the degree of Master of Science in March 1976. After his retirement, he studied in the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Boston, majoring International Relations, and got the degree of Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) on May 17, 1998 and the degree of Ph.D on November 2, 2002. The title of the dissertation for the Ph.D degree was Li or Shih: The Chinese Military Strategic Culture and Chinese Use of Force during the Cold War. From November 1999 to December 2001, he served as the Chairman, the Defense System Reform Committee, Ministry of National Defense. His awards include Order of National Security Merit (Gukson and Samil), Presidential Individual Citation, and number of foreign decorations, including the Legion of Merit from the United States of America.

Conference Participants
Peter Feaver, pfeaver@duke.edu, Duke University

Chaibong Hahm, cbhahm@yonsei.ac.kr, Yonsei University, Korea

Sung Gul Hong, sgh1229@hanmail.net, Kookmin University, Korea

Taik-Young Hamm, hammty@kyungnam.ac.kr, Kyungnam University

Sung-min Jang, smjjang21@hanmail.net, Former National Assembly Member, Korea

Bong-hwa Jung, bhjung@youngilent.co.kr, Kyungnam University

Jae Chang Kim, jckim_kor@yahoo.co.kr

Timothy McKeown, tim_mckeown@unc.edu

Chung-in Moon, cimoon@yonsei.ac.kr, Yonsei University, Korea

Emerson Niou, niou@duke.edu, Duke University

Mitchell Reiss, mbreis@wm.edu, College of William & Mary

Leon Sigal, sigal@ssrc.org, Social Science Research Council

R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center
1 Science Drive, Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
Phone Numbers
Phone (919) 660-6400
Fax (919) 681-8238

• From Washington and northern points
From 1-95 South, go through Richmond to Petersburg, Virginia. Follow signs to 1-85 South (Durham). Upon entering the Durham city limits,exit left onto 15-501 South (Duke University/Chapel Hill). Take the NC 751/Duke University Exit. Turn left atNC 751. Proceed up the hill to the third traffic light. At the light, make a left on to Science Drive. Pass the 751 parking lot on the immediate left. At the second drive, turn left into the entrance of the R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center.

• From Raleigh-Durham International Airport
Take I-40 West to Exit 279B (Durham Expressway/NC 147). Continue on the Durham Expressway and take the Chapel Hill Street Exit. Turn right at Chapel Hill Street. Which becomes Duke University Road. Follow Duke University Road to the end and make a right onto Cameron Boulevard. Go to the first traffic light and turn right onto Science Drive. Pass the 751 parking lot on the immediate left. At the second drive, turn left into the entrance of the R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center.