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Monday, December 13, 2021
11: 30 AM - 3:00 PM EST
DACOR Bacon House
1801 F ST NW Suite 305
Washington DC 20006
Most people want peace on the Korean Peninsula – bringing it about is the hard part. The United States has tried mightily, albeit unsuccessfully, for the last 30 years to persuade the North Korean regime to adhere to a lasting peace agreement.
A handful of members of Congress and ‘peace’ activists are now pushing the Peace on the Korean Peninsula Act (H.R. 3446) which instructs the Secretary of State to produce a road map for signing a peace treaty with the North Korean regime. Politicians in South Korea are also urging that the US Government issue an ‘end of war declaration’ as the Moon Administration is coming to its final stretch. These seemingly innocuous steps are, in fact, dangerous to the national security of South Korea and the United States and only further the agenda of China and North Korea.
One Korea Network’s edited volume, The Quest for Peace on the Korean Peninsula and the Unrelenting Threats from the North, covers a wide range of topics on the dangers of an ill-considered peace treaty, Chinese and North Korean objectives for the Korean Peninsula, the central role of human rights in any effective US strategy, North Korean influence in the American ‘peace activist’ movement and more.
To learn about the issues and risks posed by H.R. 3446 and similar bills, you are exclusively invited to the book launch event to hear from the contributors. This event is co-hosted with The Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK).
Schedule of Events
Registration: (11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
Welcoming Remarks: (12:00 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.)
Greg Scarlatoiu (Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea)
Col. Grant Newsham, USMC (Ret.) (President, Korean Conservative Political Action Conference)
Book Introduction: (12:10 p.m. – 12:15 p.m.)
Col. David Maxwell (Ret.) (Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)
Lunch: (12:15 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.)
Keynote Address: (1:00 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.)
Session I: National Security: (1:10 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.)
Moderator: Dr. Tara O (Adjunct Fellow, Hudson Institute)
Speakers:
Col. David Maxwell (Ret.) (Senior Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies)
Dr. Bruce E. Bechtol, Jr. (Professor, Angelo State University)
Col. Grant Newsham, USMC (Ret.) (President, Korean Conservative Political Action Conference)
Gordon Chang (Author & Commentator, Newsweek)
Session II: Human Rights: (2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
Moderator: Olivia Enos (Senior Policy Analyst, The Heritage Foundation)
Speakers:
Greg Scarlatoiu (Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea)
Amb. Morse Tan (Former Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of State)
Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee (Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies, The Fletcher School at Tufts University)
Closing Remarks: (3:00 p.m.)
[In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the event will have facemasks, hand sanitizers, and wipes available for attendees who request them. ]
