Conference on Korean Politics at Duke University

The Roh Moo-hyun Government: Assessments and Prospects

Breedlove Room, Perkins Library

Duke University

February 7, 2004

Sponsored by:

Korea Forum, Duke University

Youngil Enterprise, Korea

Program in Asian Security Studies, Duke University

Program on East Asian Initiative, Yonsei University, Korea

USED Title VI Grant

Asian/Pacific Studies Institute, Duke University

12:30-1:00 Registration and Welcoming Remarks

1:00-3:00 Session 1: Alliance, Nuclear Crisis, and Inter-Korean Relations under the Roh Moo-hyun Government

Chair: Emerson Niou, niou@duke.edu, Duke University

1:00-1:30 Reshaping ROK- US Alliance

General Jai-chang Kim, jckim_kor@yahoo.co.kr,

Former Chairman, National Defense Reform Commission

1:30-2:00 The North Korean Nuclear Crisis and the Six Party Talk

Donald Gross, dgross@akingump.com,

Senior Counsel, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Washington D. C.

2:00-2:30 Prospects for North-South Korean Relations

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

2:30-3:00 General Discussion

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break

3:30-5:30 Session 2: Crisis of Governance under the Roh Moo-Hyun Government

Chair: Heungsoo Sim, hssim@gaechuk.gsnu.ac.kr, Kyungsang University

3:30-4:00 New Reform Politics and Crisis of Governance under Roh

Sung Gul Hong, sghong@kookmin.ac.kr, Kookmin University

4:00-4:30 Party Politics in Disarray: Realignments and Generational Changes

Hee-Min Kim, hkim@garnet.acns.fsu.edu, Florida State Univ.

4:30-5:00 Political Corruption and Changing Government-Business Relations

Peter Beck, pmb@keia.org, Korea Economic Institute of America

5:00-5:30 General Discussion

6:30-8:30 Dinner