“SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF KOREAN REUNIFICATION”
APRIL 9, 2014, 3-5 PM
Panel Members:
Robert Collins
Retired United States Forces Korea
Chun In-Bum
Commander, Special Warfare Command
ROK Army
Daniel Pinkston
Deputy Project Director
North East Asia
International Crisis Group
Bryan Port
Command Senior Advisor
Strategic Communications
United States Forces Korea
Tak Sung-Han
Head of North Korean Research
Korea Institute for Defense Analyses
Moderator:
Emanuel Pastreich
Director, Asia Institute (associate professor, Kyung Hee University)
The prospect of a reunification of the Korean Peninsula has brought great enthusiasm to certain circles and raised the possibility that the security conundrum that has kept Northeast Asia from achieving the integration that Europe has might at last be on the way to a solution. Yet any massive geopolitical transformation brings with it unanticipated consequences and risks. The nations surrounding North Korea have not reached a consensus on what a post-unification Northeast Asia would look like.