- Time: Friday, May 3, 2024, at 4:30 PM

- Place: 3rd Floor Meeting Room, East Asia Institute

The East Asia Institute (EAI) held a closed-door roundtable meeting on May 3rd, 2024, with the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School, focusing on "Reducing DPRK Nuclear Risks." Seven security experts from EAI and the Belfer Center engaged in in-depth discussions on the future of U.S. extended deterrence after the U.S. presidential election, viable policy directions for freezing North Korea's nuclear capabilities, and strategies to provide security assurances to the non-nuclear DPRK regime. Additionally, they examined the implications of the Ukraine war and the Israel–Hamas war on the Korean Peninsula.

Participants

Belfer:

Amb. Linton Brooks (Chief Negotiator of the START Treaty)

Dr. Matthew Bunn (James R. Schlesinger Professor, Harvard Kennedy School)

EAI:

Dr. Chaesung Chun (Chair of the National Security Research Center, EAI; Professor, Seoul National University)

Dr. Young-Sun Ha (Chairman, EAI; Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University)

Dr. Tae-Hyung Kim (Professor, Soongsil University)

Dr. Yang Gyu Kim (Executive Director, EAI; Lecturer, Seoul National University)

Dr. Won Gon Park (Chair of Center for North Korea Studies, EAI; Professor, Ewha Womans University)