Jean Lee shares her perspective on how to read and understand North Korea today in a talk at the East-West Center in Honolulu.
Read MoreHouse Foreign Affairs Committee: Illicit IT: Bankrolling Kim Jong Un →
Jean Lee testifies before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs about North Korea’s suspected illicit financing campaign using cyber theft.
Read MoreKorea Society: The North Korean Cyber Threat →
Jean Lee joins cybersecurity expert Michael Barnhart and Korea Society policy director Jonathan Corrado for a discussion about the North Korean cyber threat.
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Indiana University: IKS Conference on the US-Korea Relationship
Jean Lee speaks at Indiana University’s Institute for Korean Studies Annual Conference on The U.S.-Korea Relationship: Past, Present, and Future
Read MoreBBC: The Lazarus Heist LIVE in New York City
Jean Lee joins co-host Geoff White and musician Dessa — along with special guests — for a live recording of the Lazarus Heist podcast in New York City.
Read MoreFeb. 16, 2022, talk at Duke University
Duke University: A Look Inside North Korea's Kim Regime →
Jean Lee speaks at Duke University for the Program in American Grand Strategy on the Kim regime in North Korea.
Read MoreNBR: South Korea in a Challenging Maritime Security Environment →
Few nations confront a more complex security environment than the Republic of Korea. South Korea’s security challenges come into sharp relief in its maritime periphery, particularly in the Yellow Sea/West Sea. In these choppy waters, exclusive economic zone and fishery disputes with China, and a boundary disagreement with North Korea, have led to consistent friction, and at times, outright hostility.
Agenda
Welcome and Introduction
Alison Szalwinski, Vice President, National Bureau of Asian Research
South Korea and the Challenges of a Maritime Nation
Terence Roehrig, Professor of National Security Affairs and the Director of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group, U.S. Naval War College
North Korea and the Northern Limit Line
Jean Lee, Director, Hyundai Motor-Korea Foundation Center for Korean History and Public Policy, Wilson Center; Former Pyongyang Bureau Chief, Associated Press
National Geographic: Inside North Korea's Dynasty →
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Moon Jae-in and Inter-Korean Détente: Korea Strategic Review 2018 →
South Korean President Moon Jae-in allocated the bulk of his political capital to inter-Korean engagement during the first year and a half of his presidency. This strategy has paid dividends thus far in the form of inter-Korean summits, agreements, family reunions, military confidence building measures, and much more. However, domestic and geopolitical forces are likely to determine his agenda’s success. What implications will the U.S.–ROK alliance, China’s role in the region, and upcoming South Korean elections have for South–North détente?
Experts Joseph Yun, Jean Lee, James L. Schoff, and Chung Min Lee review Moon’s first year and a half in office and the challenges that lie ahead.
Read MoreKorea Global Forum 2018: A New Path Forward: Charting a Roadmap to Peace on the Korean Peninsula →
Jean Lee welcomes Cho Myoung-Gyon, Minister of Unification for South Korea, to Washington, DC, to share his thoughts on inter-Korean unity and prospects for peace on the Korean Peninsula.
Read MoreWilson Center: North Korea Summit: Historic Deal or Just a Historic Handshake?
With a handshake, U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un made history, becoming the first sitting leaders of the Korean War foes to hold a summit. But was it just a photo op?
In this Ground Truth Briefing, Wilson Center experts considered whether the Singapore summit yielded real progress on denuclearization; the impact of these developments on U.S. diplomacy with other countries; China’s reaction; how the lives of average North Koreans could be affected; and what’s next in what President Trump calls “a new chapter” in U.S.-North Korea relations.
Read MoreMilken Institute Global Conference 2018: Avoiding War with North Korea
Is the perfect storm brewing on the Korean Peninsula? Jean Lee joins geopolitical experts at the Milken Institute Global Conference to discuss security in East Asia and potential avenues for conflict resolution.
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Wilson Center: The Trump-Kim Summit: High Stakes, Uncertain Prospects →
In a high-stakes diplomatic gamble, President Trump has accepted an invitation to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un – and the dramatic development raises crucial questions:
Could this summit lead to meaningful constraints on North Korea’s nuclear program? What are the attitudes of China and South Korea toward bilateral U.S.-North Korean diplomacy? What preparatory work must be done to ensure a successful summit? And what would be the criteria for success?
In this Ground Truth Briefing, three veteran observers of U.S.-Asia policy and North Korea addressed these issues.
Read MoreZocalo Public Square: Before going to war in North Korea, try understanding the place first →
With schoolyard taunts hurtling between Washington and Pyongyang, and fears of nuclear Armageddon escalating from Seoul to Tokyo to Los Angeles, the once-unthinkable idea of a military showdown between North Korea and the United States has become frighteningly plausible.
On an October evening when many Angelenos were pondering the opening game of the World Series rather than end-of-the-world scenarios, a Zócalo/UCLA panel discussion explored the question, “Is War With North Korea Inevitable?” By the end of an intense hour-long discussion at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in downtown Los Angeles, the consensus was that a catastrophic confrontation isn’t unavoidable. But to lower the odds of it happening, America’s policymakers and its public need a more nuanced and humanistic perspective on the reclusive rogue Asian nation, the panelists said.
Read MoreBROOKINGS NOW What do experts make of the North Korea challenge? 5 takeaways from a Brookings event →
What do experts make of the North Korea challenge? 5 takeaways from a Brookings event
Read MoreBrookings Institution: The path forward: Who is Kim Jong Un? →
Leading U.S. experts and former officials to identify actionable policy steps the White House and Congress should take to address the growing threat from North Korea.
Read MoreChicago Council: NORTH KOREA ON THE BRINK? →
What steps should the United States and South Korea take to maintain peace and stability in Northeast Asia?
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IFES: Preventing North Korea's Nuclear Breakout
제115차IFES해외학자초청세미나
로버트리트웍(Robert S. Litwak) 박사초청
♣주제:북핵문제를어떻게풀것인가? (Preventing North Korea's Nuclear Breakout)
♣장소:경남대극동문제연구소평화관1층대회의실
Joun-yung Sun, Chair, Professor, Kyungnam University
Robert S. Litwak, vice president for scholars, director of international security studies, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Jean H. Lee, Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Sang-yoon Ma, Director General of Policy Planning, MOFA; professor, Catholic University of Korea
Dean Ouellette, Professor, Kyungnam University
Wilson Center: Beyond Caricatures: Writing About the Real North Korea →
Award-winning foreign correspondents, researchers and writers on the challenges of writing about North Korea today, from getting on the ground to turning to defectors for information about daily life inside the Hermit Kingdom.
Read MoreAspen Security Forum: Peril on the 38th Parallel →
Can Kim Jong Un be stopped before he turns the peninsula, and the region, into a nuclear wasteland? Jean Lee speaks at the Aspen Security Forum.
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Leading U.S. experts and former officials to identify actionable policy steps the White House and Congress should take to address the growing threat from North Korea.