Building Multi-Party Capacity for a WMD-Free Korean Peninsula

A Multilateral Workshop
part of the Building Six-Party Capacity project

 

March 16-17, 2005
Radisson Plaza Xing Guo Hotel Shanghai

Shanghai, China

 

Government officials and foreign policy experts from six nations met for a two-day workshop in Shanghai, China, on March 16-17, 2005, to discuss options for strengthening the six-party process so that it can become a more useful tool in the effort to denuclearize North Korea and enhance regional stability. Policy makers and academics from the United States, South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, and Australia explored options to facilitate future agreements such as security assurances, nuclear dismantlement and verification, and economic engagement with North Korea. A report of the workshop results is being prepared and will be posted on the IFPA web site later this spring.

 

“Building Multi-Party Capacity for a WMD-Free Korean Peninsula” was organized by IFPA and the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS), the Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS), Yonsei University (in Seoul), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s School of International and Public Affairs (Center for RimPac Studies) also provided assistance. This was the first of three meetings to be held in 2006 and 2007 with generous support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

 

Workshop participants, left to right: Amb. Stephen W. Bosworth (dean, The Fletcher School, Tufts University); Amb. Charles “Jack” Pritchard (former special envoy to the DPRK and KEDO; visiting fellow, The Brookings Institution); Mr. Akitaka Saiki (deputy director general, Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau, Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs); Dr. Jacquelyn K. Davis (executive vice president, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis); Dr. Charles M. Perry (vice president and director of studies, Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis); Dr. Chung-in Moon (chairman, Presidential Committee for Northeast Asian Cooperation Initiative); Dr. Sang-hyun Lee (director, Security Studies Program, Sejong Institute); Dr. Chung min Lee (professor of international relations, Graduate School of International Relations, Yonsei University); Dr. Jiemian Yang (vice president, Shanghai Institute for International Studies)