ICAS Spring Symposium



The Korean Peninsula Issues

May 22, 2006 Monday 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM

United States Senate Russell Office Building Caucus Room SR 325
Capitol Hill, Washington D C 20510


9:00 AM Registration
Moderator Sang Joo Kim (ICAS Senior Fellow & Executive Vice President)
9:25 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks
Synja P Kim (ICAS Fellow, President and Chairman)
9:30 AM Daniel L. Glaser (Deputy Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, United States Department of Treasury)
Protecting United States Currency: The Case of North Korea
10:20 AM Thomas J. Byrne (ICAS Fellow; Moody's Financial Institutions and Sovereign Risk Group.)
Sovereign Credit Perspectives on South Korea from Risks in North Korea
11:10 AM Thomas C. Hubbard (ICAS Distinguished Fellow; Senior Advisor, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP.)
Outlook for Peace in the Korean Peninsula:US-ROK and US-DPRK Relations
12:00 PM Lunch Break
1:00 PM Lawrence R. Klein (ICAS Distinguished Fellow; Benjamin Franklin Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania; Nobel Laureate .)
A Pedagogical and Substantive Study for the Korean Economy: estimating properties of the Korean economy while studying in the USA
Kevin Y C Chung ('06 University of Pennsylvania Department of Economics; to begin graduate work University of Chicago Department of Statistics)
Modeling South Korea's Economy: Model Comparison of Simple ARMA (1,1) vs High Frequency Principal Component Analysis in Forecasting South Korea's GDP.
1:50 PM Marcus Noland (ICASFellow; Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics.)
The North Korea's Economy: Reform and Development Strategy
2:40 PM Wendy Cutler (Chief U.S. Negotiator for the Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement Negotiations:
introduced by S. Elizabeth Kim, Vice Chairperson, Global Link Solutions
)
The US-Korea FTA Negotiation: Challenges and Outlook
3:30 PM Robert L. Gallucci (Dean, Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University .)
The Status of North Korea's Nuclear Issues
5:30 PM ICAS Liberty Award Spring Reception
Guest of Honor: The Hon. James A. Leach (Chairman, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, United States House of Representatives.)
The Korean Peninsula Issues: Challenges and Prospect
7:30 PM Adjourn
Discussants
Dennis P. Halpin (ICAS Fellow; Professional Staff, Committee on International Relations, United States House of Representatives)
Helen Louise Hunter (ICAS Fellow; Author of Kim Il-song's North Korea; Intelligence & Political Analyst)
Byung Ki Kim (Associate Professor of International Relations and Directing Head of International Security Studies Program, Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Korea University)
Won Hyuk Lim (Visiting Fellow, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, Foreign Policy Studies, the Brookings Institution.)
Mark Mohr (Program Associate, Asia Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars)
Larry A. Niksch (Specialist in Asian Affairs, Congressional Research Service, United States Library of Congress)



Acknowledgement

Bigman Trading Inc, C & L USA, Council for America My Country (CAMC), Global Link Solutions Inc, ICAS Liberty Foundation, ICAS Liberty Golf Classic Invitational, ICAS Youth Excellence Program, Sea Food Bay SK Enterprises International Inc, United States Senate, Yoo’s Auto Service Inc


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