Shanghai March 2005

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
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. The meeting offered an opportunity for policy makers and academics from the United States, South Korea, Japan, China, Russia, and Australia to explore steps that the group can take to facilitate implementation of future agreements in such areas 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.

The workshop, “Building Multi-Party Capacity for a WMD-Free Korean Peninsula,” was organized by the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) and the Shanghai Institute for International Studies (SIIS). These two institutes were assisted by professors from 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). The Shanghai gathering was the first in a series of three that will be carried out in 2006 and 2007. IFPA would like to thank the Carnegie Corporation of New York for its generous financial support that made this conference, and the broader project of which it is a part, possible. IFPA would also like to thank SIIS for its hosting of the Shanghai workshop.